The Sad Case of Christopher Hitchens's Hero-worshippers

By Peter Hitchens


"It's amusing, if frustrating, to see the response of dogmatic unbelievers to my brother's thoughtful and generous remarks. It is clear that many of them find such thoughtfulness and generosity repugnant in their hero (and some of these contributions are embarrassing in their sycophancy). They would much prefer him not to have said this."


Link to article http://hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/2010/11/how-not-to-argue-part-94-the-sad-case-of-christopher-hitchenss-hero-worshippers.html

The Skeptic's Skeptic

In the battle for ideas, scientists could learn from Christopher Hitchens.
By Michael Shermer

"Although he has no formal training in science, I would pit Hitchens against any of the purveyors of pseudoscientific clap trap because of his unique and enviable skill at peeling back the layers of an argument and cutting to its core."


Read Michael's article in Scientific American here.

Christopher Hitchens answers his own riddle

By Peter Hitchens

"One of the things that kept me away from my desk during the second half of October was a visit to Washington, during which I had a conversation with my left-wing atheist brother Christopher, sponsored by a fine body of men and women called the Pew Forum."


Read Peter's blog post http://hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk

Is There An Afterlife? Trailer

All the Views Fit To Print

Low points from this year's dishonest, vacuous campaign season.

By Christopher Hitchens


Future chroniclers of the low, dishonest, vacuous campaign of 2010—not only not a single funny placard at the Jon Stewart/Stephen Colbert rally but not a single serious one, either, plus the clapped-out crooner and fatwa groupieYusuf Islam impersonating a potted plant—will certainly puzzle over President Barack Obama's almost weird refusal to stick up for himself in the middle of his first term.
Read More (Slate)

Christopher Hitchens vs Tariq Ramadan - Is Islam a Religion of Peace? 1/10

UPDATE: Watch/Download the debate on Internet Archive. Notice the play order of the videos
http://www.archive.org/details/11PartsChristopherHitchensVsTariqRamadan-IsIslamAReligionOfPeace

October 5, 2010. 92nd Street Y, New York.

Part 1



via AlbertDarwin007

Christopher Hitchens On Suffering, Beliefs And Dying

"I'm here as a product of process of evolution, which doesn't make very many exceptions. And which rates life relatively cheaply."


Christopher Hitchens interviewed on NPR. Listen here.

Can Civilization Survive Without God?

A Conversation with Christopher and Peter Hitchens

The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life invited brothers Christopher and Peter Hitchens to address the question of whether civilization needs God.

Full Transcript (pewforum)

City Lights: Billings blessed with spectacle of mix of beliefs

By Ed Kemmick.

"A journalist, author, critic and debater, Hitchens is one of those distinctly British intellectuals who seems to have read everything and forgotten nothing. In his columns, essays and books, in his speeches and impromptu public appearances, he is incapable of uttering or writing a boring sentence."
Read article here. (Billings Gazette)

Fixed Point Foundation
Pre-Order a DVD of our latest debate - featuring Christopher Hitchens and Larry Taunton. Buy the pre-order now for a discounted price! DVDs expected to ship in a few months.


http://www.fixed-point.org/index.php/onlinestore?page=shop.browse&category_id=5

Iraq Through Night-Vision Goggles

As we digest the WikiLeaks revelations, a new book
offers the soldiers' perspective.
By Christopher Hitchens

"For anybody of my generation, the term body count possesses
a reek of association that will never quite be dispelled."
Read More (Slate)

'My life is my writing ... my children come later'

Sonia Verma, Globe and Mail. Published October 22, 2010.

“I'd have to say, not to be a hypocrite, that my life is my writing before it's anything. Because that's who I am and my children come later and that's what they've had to put up with,” he says. Read interview here.

Nov. 4: An Evening with Christopher Hitchens and Stephen Prothero

The Jewish Center

Are the Ten Commandments Still Relevant? Featuring: Christopher Hitchens, Stephen Prothero, Samuel G. Freedman, and David Hazony.

Register Here. Seating is limited.

More Info (David Hazony.com)

A friendly debate

UPDATE.
From Fixed Point: Due to technical difficulties at the event location, the live stream of this debate was canceled. We apologize for the inconvenience. Plans are already underway to provide a screening and/or online stream of the full event in the near future. Check back soon for details.
http://www.fixed-point.org/index.php/debates/333-godornogoddebate

BILLINGS - A casual spectator would never have thought the two men debating in "God or No God" at the packed Babcock Theater in Billings Tuesday night would be friends.


Read More (ktvq.com)

An Unlikely Friendship

Pre-debate clip with Hitchens and Taunton
Full Story (kulr8.com)