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. Comments on BhTV: http://bloggingheads.tv/videos/63660 Twitter:   / bloggingheads   Facebook:   / bloggingheads   Podcasts: https://bloggingheads.tv/subscribe