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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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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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Why is it so hard to speak honestly about allegations of sexual harassment or our corrupt ally in Afghanistan? By Christopher Hitchens T...
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By Peter Hitchens I can’t really claim that I never notice the extraordinarily spiteful attacks on me which come from one particular qua...
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SKY ARTS 1 / HD: THU 14 APR, 10PM "Sky Arts is screening back-to-back interviews with the Hitchens brothers: writer Peter who's k...
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LABOUR councillors are blocking plans to honour campaigning journalist Christopher Hitchens with a statue, with one of them branding the l...
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Vanity Fair, June 2011 By Christopher Hitchens "Like so many of life’s varieties of experience, the novelty of a diagnosis of m...
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Watch the debate: Does Atheism Poisons Everything with Christopher Hitchens and David Berlinski on C-SPAN2 here . Hosted by the Fixed P...
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The DSK case and the silly stereotypes about American and European morals. By Christopher Hitchens "Why is that we cannot read any ...

Hitchens and Dawkins at the Texas Freethought Convention in Houston 2011
October 10, 2011Believe Me - It's Torture
BBC Radio 4
By Christopher Hitchens. A selection of the polemical journalist's essays. Read by Roger Allam.
Listen here (15 minutes). Available for 7 days.
Honouring Christopher Hitchens
Text of speech presenting the Richard Dawkins Award on behalf of Atheist Alliance of America, Houston, 8th October 2011
"Today I am called upon to honour a man whose name will be joined, in the history of our movement, with those of Bertrand Russell, Robert Ingersoll, Thomas Paine, David Hume. He is a writer and an orator with a matchless style, commanding a vocabulary and a range of literary and historical allusion far wider than anybody I know. And I live in Oxford, his alma mater and mine."
More: http://richarddawkins.net/articles/643452-honouring-christopher-hitchens
Lord Haw Haw and Anwar al-Awlaki
What the execution of a World War II traitor can teach us about assassinating American-born terrorists.
By Christopher Hitchens
The first thing to say, when reviewing the question of what America should do about those of its citizens who advocate the murder of random numbers of its civilians, is that it is flat-out astonishing to see the debate being conducted at all. Faced with jeering, sniggering, vicious saboteurs who hide from the daylight and pop up on blog and cheap CDs, calmly awarding religious permission for the capricious taking of life, what do we imagine Vladimir Putin would do?
More: http://slate.me/nz2OgY
Posted by Tom at 20:59 0 comments
Labels: 2011, Anwar al-Awlaki, Christopher Hitchens, Slate, terrorism
A Voice, Still Vibrant, Reflects on Mortality
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Hitchens, journalist Matthew Chapman, Dawkins, Carol Blue |
HOUSTON — Christopher Hitchens, probably the country’s most famous unbeliever, received the Freethinker of the Year Award at the annual convention of the Atheist Alliance of America here on Saturday. Mr. Hitchens was flattered by the honor, he said a few days beforehand, but also a little abashed.
Read More
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/10/books/christopher-hitchens-on-writing-mortality-and-cancer.html?ref=books
Posted by Tom at 05:16 1 comments
Labels: 2011, Arguably, cancer, Christopher Hitchens, Texas, The New York Times