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Letter to some middle-aged contrarians

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Letter to some middle-aged contrarians

Or, why you'll never go broke selling racial innocence

Jonathan M. Katz
Aug 6, 2021
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Letter to some middle-aged contrarians

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The other day on Twitter I found myself in a debate about the ghost of Christopher Hitchens. The proposition was whether the once-famous, now-dead iconoclast could get his work published in 2021. On one side, a writer insisted that, given Hitchens’ catholic list of targets (his favorites included Henry Kissinger, Bill Clinton, Princess Diana, God, and t…

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