December 16, 2011 3:57PM 

# Christopher Hitchens on Audio 

By [David Boaz](https://www.cato.org/people/david-boaz) 

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[Earlier today](https://www.cato.org/rip-christopher-hitchens/) I posted an edited transcript of Christopher Hitchens’s talk “Mayor Bloomberg’s Nanny State.” The only thing better than reading Hitchens is listening to him. So here’s an 8‑minute excerpt from his talk:

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