Hitchens and Rushdie on Literature & Free Speech

Found a great talk from earlier this month by Hitchens and Rushdie. This was at the PEN World Voices Festival. The first 2 of 8 videos are Hitchens’ speech; Rushdie joins him from the middle of the third til the end of the talk. Great stuff from two brilliant minds on an always salient topic: free speech in a free society. Anyone who is familiar with the disgusting events surrounding Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses will know that these guys both talk the talk and walk the walk. Enjoy.

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