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When Mumtaz Qadri shot Pakistani politician Salman Taseer, he didn't even bother to offer an excuse. By Christopher Hitchens ...
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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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Mr Steve Wasserman, Christopher Hitchens' literary agent, kindly replied to my query about a possible memorial. Posted with permission. ...
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The Think Inc 2011 event has now a new website with less graphics and more info. This year's line-up includes Neil deGrasse Tyson, Chris...
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Time has come to publish the last post on this site. I've been posting links and articles for three years, and it's been great. I a...
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The New York Times - Sunday Book Review By Christopher Hitchens "Woodrow Wilson’s fatuous claim about the European war of 1914-18 — ...
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Anderson Cooper's interview with Christopher Hitchens on his cancer diagnosis.
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Religion Is THE Problem in the Balkans
August 4, 2011"Reporting on the capture of the mass-murdering General Ratko Mladic by the Serbian government on Memorial Day, the New York Times summarized the newly created political situation like this: “Critical questions remain about precisely who protected Mr. Mladic. The pro-Western government of President Boris Tadic says it will investigate, a politically delicate examination that could lead to former government officials and perhaps even to religious authorities, since Mr. Mladic said after his arrest that he had been visited over the years by many priests.”
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Labels: 2011, Balkans, Christopher Hitchens, Croatia, Free Inquiry, religion, Serbia
Mladic the Monster
May 30, 2011Our failure to respond to the Serbian atrocities prolonged the slaughter.
By Christopher Hitchens
"I suppose it is possible that the arrest of Gen. Ratko Mladic is as undramatic and uncomplicated as it seems and that in recent years he had been off the active list and gradually became a mumbling old derelict with a rather nasty line in veterans' reminiscences. His demands would probably have been modest and few: the odd glass of slivovitz in company with a sympathetic priest (it's usually the Serbian Orthodox Church.. "
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Labels: 2011, Christopher Hitchens, Ratko Mladic, Serbia, Slate
