Hitchens remained, to the end, unable to see, let alone acknowledge, let alone refute, genuine alternatives to his own worldview. For all his literary brilliance, Hitchens retained up to the end the small-mindedness of the fundamentalists he abhorred and failed to truly grapple with the subtlety and sophistication of Chesterton\u2019s Catholicism.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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\u2026at Chesterton, whose greatness is undiminished by Hitchen\u2019s dim, dumb resort to Godwin\u2019s Law. Elsewhere, Innocent Smith also does an even better autopsy on Hitchens\u2019 last essay: Hitchens remained, to the end, unable to see, let alone acknowledge, let alone refute, genuine alternatives to his own worldview. For all his literary brilliance, Hitchens retained up […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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