Looking at the tribute threads at places like Reddit, it's strange to
> realize that there are a whole generation of younger people for whom
> Hitchens is a hero primarily because he wrote that book on his atheism.
> That's basically what he's going to be remembered for, as being part of the
> group that includes Richard Dawkins and Daniel Dennett.
>
I tend to assume that, much to Hitchens' misfortune, his cheerleading for multiple wars towards the end of his life will be remembered longer than that. Those things had real consequences. New Atheism has been a fun little intellectual diversion, like the Death of God theologians of the 1960s but without the substance. (And in fairness to the departed, he was the best of the bunch. Unlike those other two, he wrote rollicking good polemics, rather than droning bad arguments.)
-- "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað."