Why Orwell Matters

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.
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God Is Not Great

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№25
Title: God Is Not Great [$]
Author: Christopher Hitchens
Publisher: Twelve Books, Hachette Book Group
Year: 2007
Pages: 307
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 [...]

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Thomas Paine’s ‘The Rights of Man’

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№8
Title: Thomas Paine’s Rights of Man: A Biography [$]
Author: Christopher Hitchens
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
Year: 2007
Pages: 160
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, [...]

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Hanging Babylon: Functionalist policy and the war in Iraq

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Several weeks ago, the War in Iraq entered its fourth year—despite the official “end of major combat” that the codpiece-sporting President announced mere months after it began—and the steady sectarian violence pursuant to the toppling of Saddam Hussein’s Baath Party shows no encouraging signs of abatement. It has been a [...]

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Love, Poverty, and War

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№22
Title: Love, Poverty, and War [$]
Author: Christopher Hitchens
Publisher: Nation Books
Year: 2003
Pages: 475
Anyone who’s frequented my blog to any significant degree knows that I am (mostly) a fan of Christopher Hitchens. I find him an excellent journalist, as well as a [...]

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Christopher Hitchens on free speech

The Left’s love/hate relationship with Christopher Hitchens (and Christopher Hitchens’ love/hate relationship with the Left) lives on in me. I must say, however, that I not only love his words, but how fiercely dedicated he is to fundamental ideas like free speech. I agree—censorship is bad news, just about any way you slice [...]

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