What would he have to say about the Trump Presidency, and the resurgence of European fascism? The dwindling twilight of the post-war European project? We can be sure that he would have served us up with something at once scathing and illuminating. Alas, just as the world began to need reminding of totalitarianism’s perils, its most eloquent resister since Orwell was taken from us.
December 16th, 2016 at 10:32AM
http://dailynous.com/2016/12/16/suny-stony-brooks-alt-right-philosophy-phd/
December 16th, 2016 at 11:22AM
dmf: Fascinating. Seems an unlikely recruit (given his name) for the tidy-whiteys, but anyway…
December 16th, 2016 at 3:07PM
he’s asserting some kind of Indo-Arian connection in a mythical Persia he sees as corrupted by Islam and now finding it’s way back to the Right/White way: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hch8ZEqtk0
wondering more how does a guy who pitches paranormal studies teach at a sci-tech school?
December 20th, 2016 at 2:47PM
“We can be sure that he would have served us up with something at once scathing and illuminating.”
Illuminating, at least, on everything but our endless Middle Eastern wars. On this subject Hitchens was entirely in the dark.