Update: Kissinger tells JTA: Take remark on gas chambers in context
Update by Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic. December 14
ADL: Kissinger's Vile Words Means Nothing
The Nixon tapes remind us what a vile creature Henry Kissinger is.
By Christopher Hitchens
"Over the last few weeks, this modest little column of mine has been acquiring an almost eerie prescience and potency."
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What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof.
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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.
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How Can Anyone Defend Kissinger Now?
December 13, 2010Posted by Tom at 18:41 65 comments
Labels: 2010, Christopher Hitchens, Henry Kissinger, Slate
Author Christopher Hitchens in conversation
On his Jewish grandmother, his atheism, his writing—and facing his own mortality
by Noah Richler
"I don’t think someone is religious unless they have faith in what St. Paul calls the evidence of things not seen—in other words, the supernatural or supervising deity, presence, force who requires and expects certain kinds of propitiation. If that’s not in your mind, then I don’t think you’re really a religious person at all."
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by Noah Richler
"I don’t think someone is religious unless they have faith in what St. Paul calls the evidence of things not seen—in other words, the supernatural or supervising deity, presence, force who requires and expects certain kinds of propitiation. If that’s not in your mind, then I don’t think you’re really a religious person at all."
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Labels: 2010, atheism, Christopher Hitchens, interview, religion
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