In Defense of Richard Dawkins

February 4, 2012

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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:

Anonymous said...

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.

Anonymous said...

There you are, Christopher.

 
 
 

Christopher reads from Hitch-22: A Memoir