{"id":410598,"date":"2021-11-30T09:25:27","date_gmt":"2021-11-30T09:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=226867"},"modified":"2021-11-30T09:25:27","modified_gmt":"2021-11-30T09:25:27","slug":"another-look-at-christopher-hitchens-why-ben-burgis-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/11\/30\/another-look-at-christopher-hitchens-why-ben-burgis-why\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Look at Christopher Hitchens? Why Ben Burgis, Why?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Burgis has decided to publish a new book about Christopher Hitchens and the early signs are not good. His public statements seem to indicate he has the notion of actually interrogating Hitchens as a genuine intellectual. He wasn&#8217;t, he was a constant plagiarist. His works on Kissinger lifted passages by Edward Herman and Noam  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/11\/30\/another-look-at-christopher-hitchens-why-ben-burgis-why\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/11\/30\/another-look-at-christopher-hitchens-why-ben-burgis-why\/\">Another Look at Christopher Hitchens? Why Ben Burgis, Why?<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/11\/30\/another-look-at-christopher-hitchens-why-ben-burgis-why\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Burgis has decided to publish a new book about Christopher Hitchens and the early signs are not good. His public statements seem to indicate he has the notion of actually interrogating Hitchens as a genuine intellectual. He wasn&#8217;t, he was a c&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":278,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410598"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/278"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410598"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":411332,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410598\/revisions\/411332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}