Ten Years Since Christopher Hitchens Died: An Announcement
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Today marks the tenth anniversary of the death of Christopher Hitchens. I remember watching the Channel 4 news piece about his death on December 15, 2011, and feeling sad. I was 15 and, as I recall, had barely even read a word of Hitchens, but I was vaguely familiar with him from my interest in Richard Dawkins and the New Atheism stuff, so it felt like a real loss. It was only after his death, though, that I gained a real appreciation for the man, reading his actual words and watching him debate and lecture. In the years since, I have read widely and my views on a variety of things have changed and matured, but I remain an admirer, though not, of course, an uncritical one, of Hitchens (and I remain a New Atheist too, I suppose, but that’s another matter).
Ten Years Since Christopher Hitchens Died: An Announcement
Ten Years Since Christopher Hitchens Died: An…
Ten Years Since Christopher Hitchens Died: An Announcement
Today marks the tenth anniversary of the death of Christopher Hitchens. I remember watching the Channel 4 news piece about his death on December 15, 2011, and feeling sad. I was 15 and, as I recall, had barely even read a word of Hitchens, but I was vaguely familiar with him from my interest in Richard Dawkins and the New Atheism stuff, so it felt like a real loss. It was only after his death, though, that I gained a real appreciation for the man, reading his actual words and watching him debate and lecture. In the years since, I have read widely and my views on a variety of things have changed and matured, but I remain an admirer, though not, of course, an uncritical one, of Hitchens (and I remain a New Atheist too, I suppose, but that’s another matter).