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Is It Personal Conviction That Leads Hitchens to Support the War?
Hitchens: Status quo intellectuals can face more threats to their intellectual integrity. He says there's a temptation to flatter those in power who enforce the status quo. Hitchens' most tempting rewards are those offered by the university, he says.
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