Why Hitchens Matters | Robert Wright & Ben Burgis | The Wright Show

00:00 Ben, author of a new book on Christopher Hitchens, gives us a brief history of Hitch
07:03 Bob: Hitchens's argument in God is not Great was...not great
28:33 Where was Hitchens’s Marxist materialism when it came to religion?
40:15 Assessing Hitchens’s intellectual contributions
47:20 Was Hitchens an “honest” arguer?
52:10 Why did Hitchens become a hawk?
1:07:00 Hitchens in light of the Intellectual Dark Web
1:17:01 Ben gives his closing argument for why Hitchens is still worth thinking about

Robert Wright (Bloggingheads.tv, The Evolution of God, Nonzero, Why Buddhism Is True) and Ben Burgis (Give Them an Argument, Canceling Comedians While the World Burns, Christopher Hitchens). Recorded February 3, 2022.

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