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Daniel Dennett - Kinds of Minds
Daniel Dennet waxes philosophical about consciousness - its nature, its biological origin and evolution etc.
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Christopher Hitchens on Francis Fukuyama
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"History is Not Over: A Response to Francis Fukuyama"
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Christopher Hitchens comes out AGAINST the Iraq War!!!!
PSYCH!!! here Christopher Hitchens debates Morton Kondracke on the first Gulf War.
Hitchens is here in an older, anti-imperialist mode, a la Noam Chomsky, Edward Said, Howard Zinn etc...
Interestingly, the sense of outrage/horror at the state of Iraq and at the Baath Party dictatorship is just as palpable as in the post 9-11 debates.... One doesn't get the sense that he's simply jumped ship in the latest fight. He's take the evidence in full and decided that it's better to partner with American power (and all it's baggage) against an aggressive genocidal fascist dictatorship, than to partner with left-wing anti-imperialist movements and leave said regime in place.
Kondracke comes out on top in this debate IMO. Hitchens sounds especially outdated with his boilerplate anti-globalization/anti-capita<wbr>lism rhetoric, more so than Kondracke does with his boilerplate Christian poltics. There is a weird break in the recording while Hitchens is talking at some point (I forget where), but I don't think that much is missing.
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