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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.

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