{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Ep. 30 - Letters To A Young Contrarian - Pt. 1","description":"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; ","author_name":"The Liberal Soul","author_url":"http:\/\/theliberalsoul87.libsyn.com\/website","html":"<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>","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/assets.libsyn.com\/secure\/content\/119378468"}