http://www.kevinmarshallonline.com/blog/2011/12/19/if-you-always-agree-with-someone-then-youre-wrong-the-post-mortem-criticisms-of-christopher-hitchens/ Musing & misadventures of a writer, comedian, and local treasure Thu, 31 Jan 2013 04:17:00 -0500 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 http://www.kevinmarshallonline.com/blog/2011/12/19/if-you-always-agree-with-someone-then-youre-wrong-the-post-mortem-criticisms-of-christopher-hitchens/#comment-9461 Thu, 12 Apr 2012 16:31:00 +0000 http://www.kevinmarshallonline.com/blog/?p=6707#comment-9461 I thought this was a great little piece. I’m a huge fan of Hitchens, both the man and his work, and I think he would want to be discussed, debated, and scrutinized. He wouldn’t want to be held up and endlessly praised (or knighted, as some people have proposed) just as much as he wouldn’t want to be slandered and dismissed. I too thought he was wrong sometimes (though not often), Iraq being foremost in my mind. I guess what I’m trying to say is that the fact that he was a person, flawed like us all, makes the times when he was on his game all the better. He will not be forgotten, and the world is better to have had him.

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