[lbo-talk] Hitchens and a short reading list, mostly about Iran / Islam

[Bhaskar Sunkara]

"Letters to a Young Contrarian" was actually quite a good book, but the
amount of untranslated French and Latin in it was borderline intolerable for
me when I read it as a teen.  That good old Oxford elitism was really on
display.  His biography of Paine on the other hand was absolute trash.