The Atlantic, in conjunction with the Aspen Institute and the Newseum, will host its second annual Washington Ideas Forum in Washington from September 29 through October 1, 2010.
Confirmed newsmakers: White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, Ahmed Chalabi, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour, filmmaker Spike Lee, authors Elizabeth Edwards, Christopher Hitchens and Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Craigslist's Craig Newmark, and The Carlyle Group founder David Rubenstein.
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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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Washington Ideas Forum 2010
September 13, 2010Watch Hitchens vs Berlinski on C-SPAN 2
Debate: How Atheism Poisons Everything with Christopher Hitchens and David Berlinski.
Saturday, September 18th, 7pm ET.
Sunday, September 19th, 8am & 10pm ET
Program Information (booktv.org)
Saturday, September 18th, 7pm ET.
Sunday, September 19th, 8am & 10pm ET
Program Information (booktv.org)
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Labels: 2010, Book TV, C-SPAN2, Christopher Hitchens, David Berlinski
A Call for Earthly Justice
Holding the Catholic Church accountable for its crimes.
By Christopher Hitchens
"Reading Diarmaid MacCulloch's extraordinary and limpid new work Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years (a history informed by a general, if Anglican, sympathy for its subject), I came across the following passage from Cardinal John Henry Newman's classic statement of belief, his Apologia Pro Vita Sua:"
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By Christopher Hitchens
"Reading Diarmaid MacCulloch's extraordinary and limpid new work Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years (a history informed by a general, if Anglican, sympathy for its subject), I came across the following passage from Cardinal John Henry Newman's classic statement of belief, his Apologia Pro Vita Sua:"
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Labels: 2010, Catholic Church, Christopher Hitchens, The Pope
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