15. By dangerous model to imitate I mean Hitchens was (like Hemingway, Kerouac, Hunter Thompson) too admired by men as a great rogue male.
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26. The habit of creating saints, of venerating people beyond what the evidence can bear, is not exclusive to religious believers.
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27. But if we should be careful of who we canonize, we should still be open to different voices, including Hitchens. THE END.
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Case in point is the list of fellow-travelers Orwell sent to military intelligence; Hitchens's defense is weak, unconvincing
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Hitchens kind of ruined Orwell, I think (or at least modeled a very uninteresting way to read him)
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And chose increasingly uninteresting and convenient ways to take him as a personal model.
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