1 rich Libsyn https://www.libsyn.com 90 600 Welcome to a new episode of The Liberal Soul. This is part one of a two parter on the book Letters To A Young Contrarian by Christopher Hitchens. In December 2021 it was the ten year anniversary of the death of Hitch. Because of the impact Hitchens had on my intellectual development, I wanted to do an episode(s) on him. Letters being his most philosophical book, it seemed the appropriate one. In part one I muse on ideas from the book such as: how contrarian is a slightly misleading word considering what this book is about, being principled over partisan, anti-scapegoating, the As If principle and its relationship to Highest Common Denominator, moral triage, don't go thereism, and standing up to a crowd. Links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreyfus_affair https://theliberalsoul87.libsyn.com/ https://twitter.com/Liberalsoul87 &amp;nbsp; The Liberal Soul http://theliberalsoul87.libsyn.com/website <iframe title="Libsyn Player" style="border: none" src="//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/21787145/height/90/theme/custom/thumbnail/yes/direction/forward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/88AA3C/" height="90" width="600" scrolling="no" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen></iframe> https://assets.libsyn.com/secure/content/119378468