![]() ![]() ![]() I knew Richard and Dan longer than that – mostly an email relationship. ![]() “I hadn’t seen him in person very many times. “I think I met Hitch in 2007, when God Is Not Great was just about to launch,” he recalls. Today he is one of the best-known public intellectuals in America, thanks to a series of bestsellers, his podcast, and a celebrated altercation with the Hollywood actor Ben Affleck, of which more later.īut first, on the phone to Los Angeles, I ask Harris how well he knew his fellow Horsemen. That leaves Harris to uphold the cause, which he has done with great energy. Today, Dawkins and Dennett are in their late 70s, and no longer quite as active, and Hitchens, the most charismatic of them all, is dead. And partly because it was a product of the ‘war on terror’, or at least an intellectual response to what that war was ostensibly targeting: namely, radical Islam. The New Atheism has rather faded from prominence, partly because, as its proponents acknowledged, it was not very different from the old atheism. It’s an odd moment in history to revisit. Now that conversation has been published in a book entitled The Four Horsemen, with a glowing foreword by Stephen Fry. He could easily have been the Ringo Starr of the quartet, but he more than holds his own. By some way the youngest, Harris looks a little as if Ben Stiller, whom he physically resembles, had joined a meeting of great minds and made a good fist of being serious. ![]()
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