Christopher Hitchens is hard to get a handle on. The same people who gleefully forward me his scathing review of Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11 would of course be aghast at his most controversial book, God is Not Great; similarly, those who would cheer No One Left to Lie To: the triangulations of William Jefferson Clinton [...]
Nowadays, Christopher Hitchens is usually known either for his antitheist views or his staunch support for the war in Iraq; it’s often forgotten that The Hitch has been a journalist for a long time, is fiercely intelligent, and his total output spans a variety of topics, not just his most recent polemical choices. I read [...]
It’s been too long since I had any Christopher Hitchens video love here. Here he is giving a speech based on his book about George Orwell. October 21, 2002 @ The Commonwealth Club. Get the Flash Player to see this content. var params = { ‘allowfullscreen’: ‘true’, ‘allowscriptaccess’: ‘always’, ‘wmode’: ‘transparent’ }; var attributes = [...]
Among religious historians, Karen Armstrong is a titan. Certainly, she’s prolific: since 1982, she’s published 22 books, as well as articles in other media as well. She gets a nod, however curt, from Christopher Hitchens in his recent polemic, as an important—if sympathetic—figure in the world of religious scholarship. Her books deal mostly with the [...]
Continuing a long and somewhat tawdry literary affair with the much-loved and oft-maligned Christopher Hitchens, I am reading his latest, God Is Not Great. This is his first book that deals with his rather public denunciation of religion, though to faithful readers of his other books, his articles, or his interviews, it’s no surprise at [...]
I continue my torrid literary affair with Christopher Hitchens with his latest short biography. He’s previously done a slim tome about Thomas Jefferson; now, he turns to famed pamphleteer Thomas Paine, beginning a theme of which Susan Jacoby would be proud. Ostensibly a biography of Paine, one gets the feeling early on that Thomas Paine’s [...]
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