FREE INQUIRY February / March 2012
By Christopher Hitchens
If you haven’t read it, you will almost certainly have seen it: the critique of Professor Richard Dawkins that arraigns him for being too “strident” in his confrontations with his critics. According to this line of attack, Dawkins has no business stepping outside the academy to become a “public intellectual” and even...
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2 comments:
I experienced a very eerie feeling reading this. It was only then that I began to fathom what it meant to "live on" in one's writings. Glad to see you again, Hitch.
There you are, Christopher.
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