NP Left responses "disgraceful" says Hitchens

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Saturday, October 13, 2001
    
OPINION  

The Left's thinkers abandon ship after it collides with reason

By Padraic P. McGuinness

In the wake of the terrorist atrocities in the United States, the crumbling
of the Left consensus continues. Thus while the usual suspects, especially
in the media, heaped blame upon the victim and claimed that fanaticism and
poverty in the Third World were the fault of the US and of globalisation,
there were sufficient voices from independent thinkers who consider
themselves of the Left to show that the centre of the Left consensus cannot
hold - things are falling apart.

[...]

[T]he crumbling of the Left consensus in intellectual terms ... has been
exemplified by the denunciation by Christopher Hitchens, a leading leftist
journalist, of the disgraceful responses to terrorism in Left circles.

[...]

[H]e is prepared to argue his views and does not show the kind of massive
ignorance, dogmatism and disrespect for either evidence or rational argument
which categorises most of the modern Left.

[...]

Full opinion at:

http://www.smh.com.au/news/0110/13/opinion/opinion6.html

Interview with Christopher Hitchens in _Reason_ at:

http://reason.com/0111/fe.rs.free.html

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