His simple-mindedness had a touch of genius to it.
By Christopher Hitchens
"The centennial memoir of his famous parent by Ron Reagan (My Father at 100), which at first sight looks as slight as its author, is better than many press reports might suggest."
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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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In Stock. Ships from and sold by Amazon.com . Gift-wrap available. Product Description The first new book of essays by Christopher Hitch...
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Talk of the Nation. Carol Blue, Hitchens' wife of 20 years, interviewed on NPR by Neal Conan. Listen here . (30 min.)
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Tickets still available for the Think Inc. Science and Rationalism Conference in Melbourne, Australia. September 18, 2011. More Info: htt...
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The iconoclast Christopher Hitchens loved life and delighted in "doing and thinking and writing all the things that he had always don...
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The Globe and Mail has a few short videos with CH and Tony Blair being interviewed before the Munk debate. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/v...
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Feb 1, 2010. Christopher Hitchens on Boston Talks. He talks to Michael Graham about George Galloways visit to Boston, Barack Obama, Iran and...
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Christopher Hitchens debated Dinesh D'Souza before a packed house of over 2,000 people in St. Louis' Powell Symphony Hall in Septemb...
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Christopher Hitchens participated in 'The Only Subject is Love' Symposium in honor of the opening of his friend Salman Rushdie'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...
Would America Have Been Better Off Without a Reagan Presidency?
February 5, 2011Posted by Tom at 17:39 7 comments
Labels: 2011, Christopher Hitchens, Ron Reagan, Ronald Reagan
Lost in Translation
Free Inquiry, Feb/March 2011
By Christopher Hitchens
"One of the pleasures of trying to keep up with the twists and turns of the religious worldview is noticing the convolutions that this view keeps inflicting upon itself. Last November brought news of two small but significant developments of this kind, both tending to vindicate the essential atheist or materialist contention that religion is man-made."
Read More http://secularhumanism.org/index.php?section=fi&page=hitchens_lost
By Christopher Hitchens
"One of the pleasures of trying to keep up with the twists and turns of the religious worldview is noticing the convolutions that this view keeps inflicting upon itself. Last November brought news of two small but significant developments of this kind, both tending to vindicate the essential atheist or materialist contention that religion is man-made."
Read More http://secularhumanism.org/index.php?section=fi&page=hitchens_lost
Posted by Tom at 05:51 16 comments
Labels: 2011, Christopher Hitchens, Free Inquiry, Lost in Translation, religion, The Pope
The Thank Hitchens Project
The Michigan Skeptics Association needs video clips..
"We need you to record a video of yourself or your group saying thanks to Hitch. You can say anything you want and long as it’s some type of thank you."
"Don’t say good bye or anything like that. This isn’t a memorial. He’s not dead."
More Info http://www.miskeptics.org/thank-hitch/
"We need you to record a video of yourself or your group saying thanks to Hitch. You can say anything you want and long as it’s some type of thank you."
"Don’t say good bye or anything like that. This isn’t a memorial. He’s not dead."
More Info http://www.miskeptics.org/thank-hitch/
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