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Cancer was already bubbling in his throat when Christopher Hitchens was composing his memoir
Hitch-22. He did not know the last curtain was coming down, and would not receive the fateful diagnosis until the book’s launch in the summer of 2010. Nevertheless, he was still anxious to pre-empt the obituaries. In that text, all things loathed and adored about the Anglo-American journalist were laid out on his own terms. Defiler of saints. Scourge of presidents. Furiously independent, forever searching for the Good Fight. It was intended to be a mythology – a story more than half in love with itself.
Now, almost a decade since his death in late 2011, it is worth interrogating what remains of that self-made legacy and the judgements of devotees and enemies alike: how and why Hitchens famously abandoned the socialism that nurtured him, what became of the New Atheist movement he helped to guide, and above all, just how deeply Iraq sullied and sank his reputation.
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Tweet Professor Richard Dawkins, left, and Sean Faircloth, Director of Strategy & Policy, Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason & Science, speak to the media before the Rock Beyond Belief event, Saturday, March 31, 2012 at Fort Bragg, N.C. For the first time in history, the U.S. military hosted an event expressly for soldiers and others who don t believe in God, with a gathering sort of like a county fair Saturday on the main parade ground at one of the world s largest Army bases. (AP Photo/The Fayetteville Observer, Raul R. Rubiera) MANDATORY CREDIT; MAGS OUT; NO SALES
This week, the American Humanist Association (AHA), which advocates for a “nontheistic worldview,” proved just how dogmatic atheists can be. In high dudgeon over a tweet about transgenderism from prominent atheist and evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, AHA excommunicated Dawkins for heresy, finding his browbeating confession insufficient. On Wednesday, however, the prominent atheist and psychologist Step
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