By Christopher Hitchens
"I am sometimes asked whether I ever get tired of debating the faithful. There are two reasons why I never do. The first is that this argument is at the root of all other arguments: constituting the essential underlay of differences about philosophy, cosmology, history, textual criticism and even medicine. The second is that I never know what my antagonist is going to say, or affirm, or claim to believe."
Read More (Washington Post)
Blair's thoughts about the event.
What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof.
Welcome to an unofficial Christopher Hitchens site. dailyhitchens@post.com
Christopher Hitchens (1949 - 2011) was an Anglo-American author and journalist. His books made him a prominent public intellectual and a staple of talk shows and lecture circuits. He was a columnist and literary critic at Vanity Fair, Slate, The Atlantic, World Affairs, The Nation, Free Inquiry and a variety of other media outlets. He was named one of the world's "Top 100 Public Intellectuals" by Foreign Policy and Britain's Prospect.
Yahoo! News
Wikipedia
Search results
Recent Comments
Popular Posts
-
Why did so many "experts" declare the Oslo attacks to be the work of Islamic terrorists? By Christopher Hitchens "Having h...
-
PZ Meyers response to the Hitchens Watch post 'Hitchens Collaborating In Religious Indoctrination?' "There is a site called C...
-
Update: Kissinger tells JTA: Take remark on gas chambers in context Update by Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic. December 14 ADL: Kissinger...
-
"In whatever kind of 'race' life may be, I have very abruptly become a finalist". Christopher speaks out on his cancer i...
-
When was the last time a conservative NATO army pushed out its highest-ranking officers? By Christopher Hitchens "To read of the s...
-
New Statesman: "You may need to set aside the rest of your Saturday to get through this, but here in full is the transcript of the long...
-
“To terrify children with the image of hell...to consider women an inferior creation. Is that good for the world?” - Christopher Hitchens. ...
-
Friday, November 26, 2010. Roy Thomson Hall, Toronto, Canada. The official resolution, "Be it resolved, religion is a force of good for...
-
It's April 13th. Some want to call it Christopher Hitchens Day. I agree with Staks Rosch: "While some atheists will be raising a gl...
-
By Sam Harris The moment it was announced that Christopher Hitchens was sick with cancer, eulogies began spilling into print and from the ...
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Paine
Baruch Spinoza
George Orwell
Bertrand Russell
Leon Trotsky
Rosa Luxemburg
Socrates
Debating Tony Blair on faith
November 30, 2010Posted by Tom at 22:37 57 comments
Labels: 2010, atheism, Christopher Hitchens, debate, religion, Tony Blair
BBC Newsnight Special: Christopher Hitchens
CH interviewed in his home in Washington D.C by Jeremy Paxman. Broadcasted on Nov 29, 2010.
Play Full Interview.
Posted by Tom at 06:23 17 comments
Labels: 2010, BBC 2, cancer, Christopher Hitchens, interview, Jeremy Paxman, religion
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
