![]() 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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