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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 29 Dec 2021

      Re-reading some of Christopher Hitchens work post 9/11 is unsettling. You can see him become progressively unmoored. Not dissimilar to stuff we've seen during pandemic among some thinkers.

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    2. (((Lynn Gazis-Sax)))‏ @EmpressNorton 29 Dec 2021
      Replying to @HeerJeet

      Yeah, I remember how immediately after 9/11 he still sounded fairly reasonable and then progressively less so.

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    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 29 Dec 2021
      Replying to @EmpressNorton

      It's actually a little shocking that for the first few days after 9/11 he kept his cool and then something snapped. And after that he got worse and worse. Very noticable.

      9 replies 6 retweets 105 likes
    4. Josh Marshall‏Verified account @joshtpm 29 Dec 2021
      Replying to @HeerJeet @EmpressNorton

      I watched a lot of that very up close. It made a certain sense in the milieu of writer dc at the time.

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    5. Josh Marshall‏Verified account @joshtpm 29 Dec 2021
      Replying to @joshtpm @HeerJeet @EmpressNorton

      2/ having said that it's hard for me even to quite explain to my self even just what the logic of it was. i guess i would say that watching it up close i didn't seem surprising. i had a few very uncomfortable interactions with him in that 2002-2003 period after I'd ...

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    6. Josh Marshall‏Verified account @joshtpm 29 Dec 2021
      Replying to @joshtpm @HeerJeet @EmpressNorton

      3/ written highly critical things about him and his defenses of war on terror nonsense. there was just already a lot of ground work laid for that switch in his social set even prior to 9/11. a lot of it kind of flowed naturally from a certain slivery of ...

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    7. Josh Marshall‏Verified account @joshtpm 29 Dec 2021
      Replying to @joshtpm @HeerJeet @EmpressNorton

      4/ human rights intellectual world at the time. how that was is kind of hard to explain. but you could sort of see it play out at the interpersonal level.

      2 replies 1 retweet 26 likes
    8. Kombiz Lavasany‏Verified account @kombiz 29 Dec 2021
      Replying to @joshtpm @HeerJeet @EmpressNorton

      I don't think you can fully understand it without taking into account the chic atheism of the day. He was already coming out of a movement - which i appreciated - but instead of punching up in the us against christian evangilicalism, he turned to punching down against Muslims

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    9. Josh Marshall‏Verified account @joshtpm 29 Dec 2021
      Replying to @kombiz @HeerJeet @EmpressNorton

      I think that's a very key part of it. I was just rereading this 2010 piece which goes into precisely this point. His atheism was in many ways a contempt for believers which paved the way for his turn.https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-odd-confluence#more-121652 …

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 29 Dec 2021
      Replying to @joshtpm @kombiz @EmpressNorton

      There were 3 paths that prepared Hitchens for hard right turn after 9/11: 1) his atheism took on an Islamic focus starting with Rushdie controversy 2) Bosnia drew him to human rights military interventionism 3) Clinton era alienated him from Dem party.

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        2. Warren Terra‏ @warren__terra 29 Dec 2021
          Replying to @HeerJeet @joshtpm and

          There was also his lifelong misogyny, which alienated him from half of the left (less so on the right).

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        3. Matthew‏ @Roland00Address 29 Dec 2021
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          Must never forget this

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        2. Josh Marshall‏Verified account @joshtpm 29 Dec 2021
          Replying to @HeerJeet @kombiz @EmpressNorton

          the contempt for Clinton is very underrated part of this

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        3. Josh Marshall‏Verified account @joshtpm 29 Dec 2021
          Replying to @joshtpm @HeerJeet and

          The whole analysis is very acute

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        1. Neill Callis‏ @NeillCallis 29 Dec 2021
          Replying to @HeerJeet @joshtpm and

          Great insight and remembrances. Hitchen’s atheism is the key, I think, but Bosnia and the Clinton centrism/triangulation pieces fit perfectly. I admired the man greatly for his writing even if I disagreed.

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        1. MCUfeld‏ @MCUfeld 30 Dec 2021
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          Spot on. I’d love to hear your take on Glenn Greenwald’s hard right turn.

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