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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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Mr Steve Wasserman, Christopher Hitchens' literary agent, kindly replied to my query about a possible memorial. Posted with permission. ...
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The Guardian In these final essays, Hitchens examines his own disbelief that writing – indistinguishable to him from living – is about to...
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Mail Online By John Preston The Christopher Hitchens who stares out of the cover of this book is a very different-looking figure to the ...
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Hitchens, journalist Matthew Chapman, Dawkins, Carol Blue By Charles McGrath / The New York Times HOUSTON — Christopher Hitchens, pro...
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Vanity Fair Christopher Hitchens—the incomparable critic, masterful rhetorician, fiery wit, and fearless bon vivant—died today at the ag...
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Recorded June 15, 2010. Christopher Hitchens at The Free Library of Philadelphia. He is interviewed by Marty Moss-Coane, host of WHYY's ...
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A short audio clip from the Politics and Prose event in Washington DC. As in the previous post, I've asked the uploader to post more...
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May 12, 2010. The Veritas Forum. Christopher Hitchens debates John Haldane on 'We Don't Do God'? Secularism and Faith in the Pub...
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The evolution of the race card in American politics. By Christopher Hitchens "At the beginning of the summer, my conservative friend D...
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Update: Hitchens spotted in D.C. Sunday night. Link here . At reddit.com there are comments on Hitchens having breathing issues at the air...
American Inaction Favors Qaddafi
March 7, 2011
By Christopher Hitchens
"Our common speech contains numberless verbs with which to describe the infliction of violence or cruelty or brutality on others. It only really contains one common verb that describes the effect of violence or cruelty or brutality on those who, rather than suffering from it, inflict it. That verb is the verb to brutalize"
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What I Don’t See at the Revolution
By Christopher Hitchens
"When anatomizing revolutions, it always pays to consult the whiskered old veterans. Those trying to master a new language, wrote Karl Marx about the turmoil in France in the 19th century, invariably begin haltingly, by translating it back into the familiar tongue they already know. And with his colleague Friedrich Engels he defined a revolution as the midwife by whom the new society is born from the body of the old."
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Outspoken and outrageous: Christopher Hitchens
(CBS News) Steve Kroft profiles Vanity Fair columnist, author and public intellectual Christopher Hitchens, for whom nothing is off-limits when making his wry and often outrageous observations, including the cancer he is suffering from.
For main segment and web extras:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/03/06/60minutes/main20038931.shtml?tag=contentMain;cbsCarousel
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Labels: 2011, 60 minutes, cancer, CBS News, Christopher Hitchens, interview, Steve Kroft
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