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Podcast: Bloggingheads.tv: The Glenn Show
Episode: Can Hitchens Save the Left? (Glenn Loury & Matt Johnson)
Description: How Matt first encountered Christopher Hitchens ... Mattâs new book, How Hitchens Can Save the Left: Rediscovering Fearless Liberalism in an Age of Counter-Enlightenment ... Why Matt thinks Cornel Westâs Vietnam-Afghanistan analogy is flawed ... Whatâs worth preserving in the left-liberal tradition? ... Matt: Identity politics is a âtoxinâ ... Was affirmative action ever necessary? ... Matt: I wish the left would rediscover Hitchensâs universalism ... Hitchensâs âfearless liberalismâ ...