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...
View ArticleWhat 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...
View ArticleWho 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...
View ArticleChristopher 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...
View ArticleChristopher 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,...
View ArticlePeter 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...
View ArticleHow 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...
View ArticleThat 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...
View ArticleA 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...
View ArticleThe 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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