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Christopher Hitchens Exposes the Lies That Built America: Arguably Essays Decoded
Dive into Christopher Hitchens' explosive collection 'Arguably: Selected Essays'—a relentless takedown of sacred cows, from America's secular founding to the horrors of modern tyranny. Hitchens, a master polemicist, argues that the U.S. wasn't built on faith but on a clever separation of church and state, that John Brown's bloody revolt, not Lincoln's compromise, ended slavery, and that the 1953 CIA coup in Iran directly birthed the 1979 theocracy. He skewers JFK's drug-fueled facade, exposes waterboarding as literal torture, and warns that appeasing evil only feeds it. This isn't history—it's a battle for reason itself. Watch to see why Hitchens believes forgetting our past is the surest path to repeating its tragedies.
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