Bill Kristol

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Bill Kristol @BillKristol

"Hitchens argued that there would always be 'powerful enemies' of the Enlightenment, and he decided that defeating those enemies and defending the open society was worthwhile...He recognized this 'necessitated constant argument about the idea of America.'” https://t.co/z4GhJkGXkI — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Dec. 15, 2022

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Bill Kristol @BillKristol

"When he broke from the International Socialists in the mid-1970s, he recalls in Hitch-22 his sudden realization that 'democracy and pluralism were good things in themselves, and ends in themselves at that, rather than means to another end.'” https://t.co/z4GhJkGXkI — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Dec. 15, 2022

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Bill Kristol @BillKristol

"Like the great Enlightenment liberal philosophers, Hitchens took liberty to be the grounding political value: the liberty to speak and write openly, to be free of authoritarian domination, to escape the arbitrary constraints of tribe, faith, and nation." https://t.co/z4GhJkGXkI — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Dec. 15, 2022