He's probably one of the most misquoted or slandered public speakers around right now. I think he spends more of his time
"busting myths" around things he has said than actually talking about anything "new" these days lol. Although his recent flurries with artificial intelligence are good brain food. I'm really interested in the questions of morality around AI as it expands and becomes life-like. As OT as this might be, good ole Ghost in the Shell has some good episodes (in the TV anime) and thoughts in the movies about morality and AI. One day it will become a real matter for us to debate. Maybe not in our life times though.
I'd say he isn't a Hitchens, but then again no one is. However, I'd personally rank Harris ahead of Dawkins, who tries to be Hitchens, but falls short of having the grace Hitch did. Still, a thinker who has provoked a lot of brain food for the masses whether you agree with things he says or not. In the modern world it's a pleasure to still read a whole book written by someone, rather than just feeding yourself 140 character tweets or a couple hundred word "journalist articles" (in many cases often just the following inflammatory article title). It's sad but a lot of the modern day world is catering to short attention spans around incredibly complex topics that require lots of conversation and lots of reading. This is one reason I like Rogan's podcasts when it's guests I want to hear. Not many other places give people 2~4 hours to discuss
anything. As in, all topics, nothing off the table, and not 5~10 mins curated PG-safe mainstream news interviews. Although as I said earlier in here, Alex Jones is just one person I'm not wasting 4 hours of my life entertaining.