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The Greatest Debate of All Time: Hitchens Versus Galloway on Iraq
It’s often tricky to identify “the best” of a certain category. But with debates, ironically enough, the question is, at least to my mind, settled. There are a lot of nominees for second place:...
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On Life with a Death Sentence: Reflections on 25 Years Since the Salman...
On February 14th, 1989, the Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwā against the Indian-born British novelist Salman Rushdie, in retaliation for Rushdie’s allegedly blasphemous book The Satanic Verses....
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A Secular Scientist’s Argument against the New Atheists
Moderator: Dr. Berlisnki, you’re not a Christian, and indeed, you’re not religious as I understand it. Why do you argue for a Judeo-Christian influence in society? David Berlisnki: I presume you are...
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That Time Margaret Thatcher Spanked Christopher Hitchens
“I had written a longish article for The New York Times Magazine, saying in effect that, if Labour could not revolutionize British society, then the task might well fall to the right. I had also...
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How Christopher Hitchens Became an American Citizen (Or, a Case Study in the...
“The American bureaucracy very swiftly overcompensates for any bright-eyed immigrant delusions. Nihil humanum a me alienum puto, said the Roman poet Terence: ‘Nothing human is alien to me.’ The slogan...
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Peter Hitchens: The House I Grew up in
“I know perfectly well that it’s actually quite wrong to try to live in the past or to seek it. I think a lot of the reason why people do sometimes do it and some little moment of reminiscence will...
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Christopher Hitchens: Their Hatred Towards Us Is a Compliment
“Because anti-Semitism is the godfather of racism and the gateway to tyranny and fascism and war, it is to be regarded not as the enemy of the Jewish people alone, but as the common enemy of humanity,...
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Christopher Hitchens: Resisting Radical Islam 101
“It’s coming to a place near you. The Qurans that are given out in our prison system, to Muslim prisoners by Muslim chaplains, paid for by Saudi Arabia, are Qurans written to the Wahabi tune. They’re...
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Who Survived the Holocaust — and How?
“What you had to have is usually tabulated as follows: luck; the ability to adapt, immediately and radically; a talent for inconspicuousness; solidarity with another individual or with a group; the...
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What to be Wary of in Your Government
“The management of so complicated and mighty a machine, as the United Colonies, requires the meekness of Moses, the patience of Job and the wisdom of Solomon, added to the valour of Daniel… We may...
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College, Life
Two years ago this week, as I was on the cusp of graduating from college, I gave a commencement speech to classmates and alumni of the University of Virginia in which I tried to summarize the ways in...
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On Life with a Death Sentence: Reflections on 25 Years Since the Salman...
On February 14th, 1989, the Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwā against the Indian-born British novelist Salman Rushdie, in retaliation for Rushdie’s allegedly blasphemous book The Satanic Verses....
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The Central Paradox of Antisemitism
Excerpts from Christopher Hitchens and Martin Amis discussing Judaism and Antisemitism at Jewish Book Week in London in 2007: “Saul Bellow once said to me, privately, that without Israel, Jewish...
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Andrew Sullivan and Christopher Hitchens: What Country Would You Live In?
Brian Lamb: If you had to choose a country to live in, besides Great Britain and the United States– Christopher Hitchens: India. I love India. It’s the only place I’ve ever felt sort of instantly at...
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On Life with a Death Sentence: Reflections on 25 Years Since the Salman...
On February 14th, 1989, the Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwā against the Indian-born British novelist Salman Rushdie, in retaliation for Rushdie’s allegedly blasphemous book The Satanic Verses....
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The Greatest Debate of All Time: Hitchens Versus Galloway on Iraq
It’s often tricky to identify “the best” of a certain category. But with debates, ironically enough, the question is, at least to my mind, settled. There are a lot of nominees for second place:...
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The Occasional Pleasure of Advancing Years: Christopher Hitchens on the...
“In some ways, the photograph of me with Martin and James is of ‘the late Christopher Hitchens.’ At any rate, it is of someone else, or someone who doesn’t really exist in the same corporeal form. The...
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Time for Silence
“Beware the irrational, however seductive. Shun the ‘transcendent’ and all who invite you to subordinate or annihilate yourself. Distrust compassion; prefer dignity for yourself and others. Don’t be...
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Christopher Hitchens and His Mother
“I mustn’t pretend to remember more than I really do, but I am very aware that it makes a great difference to have had, in early life, a passionate lady in one’s own corner… I am speaking of the time...
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There Is a Season
To everything there is a season, A time for every purpose under heaven: A time to be born, And a time to die; A time to plant, And a time to pluck what is planted; A time to kill, And a time to heal;...
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