CH Skipping Prayer Day in His Honor

Divine Impulses: Christopher Hitchens on preparing for life, and death (1/5)

CH talks to On Faith's Sally Quinn. A week long series with Hitchens.
 Part 2-5 here (washingtonpost.com)

From the N-Word to Code Words

The evolution of the race card in American politics.

By Christopher Hitchens

"At the beginning of the summer, my conservative friend David Frum made a joking remark that stayed with me. The evolution of right-wing abuse of President Barack Obama, he said, was not unlike the evolution of American pornography."

Read more (Slate)

To Pray Or Not To Pray

Pray for me? Christopher Hitchens?
By Christopher Hitchens

"Even the nicest and most caring religious people are often unaware of quite how rude they are being."   Read more. (The Washington Post)

Atheist Hitchens skipping prayer day in his honor.
By Jay Reeves (Associated Press)

 

Does Atheism Poison Everything? Debate

Watch the debate: Does Atheism Poisons Everything with Christopher Hitchens and David Berlinski on C-SPAN2 here.


Hosted by the Fixed Point Foundation. Moderated by Larry Taunton.
Duration 1 h. 7 min.

Christopher Hitchens Still Doesn't Believe in the Afterlife

Walter Owen reviews the "Is there an afterlife?" debate between CH and Shmuley Boteach at Cooper Union on September 16, 2010.

Read his review here. (Vanity Fair)

Shmuley and Christopher

A rabbi and an atheist walk into a room …

"But Hitch, being Hitch, sauntered out onto the stage at Cooper Union’s Great Hall wearing a beige suit, tailored to his newly chemo-svelte frame, and smiling beneath his new cue-ball dome. He carried a bottle of water, and a plastic cup filled with brown liquid that probably wasn’t medicine."

Read more (tabletmag.com)

Almost Noble

Tony Blair’s memoir reveals him to be neither a cynic nor an innocent, but a man of some principle.
By Christopher Hitchens

WHEN I WENT to interview Tony Blair, the newly elected leader of the opposition in the House of Commons, in 1994, I wanted to ask him about his membership in the Christian Socialist Movement, a very traditionalist affiliate of the British Labour Party. I had, I told him, by now read all his speeches since he had become leader, and could find no trace of any such commitment in his rhetoric. With the very disarming open-faced grin that so many people would later come to dislike, he replied that this was because he couldn’t stand the sort of politician who exploited religion for electoral purposes.

Continue reading (The Atlantic)

Washington Ideas Forum 2010

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.


More info (mediabistro.com)

Watch 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)

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:"
Read more (Slate)

‘Atheism Poisons Everything’: A Report

By Larry Taunton

A few days ago, Fixed Point Foundation sponsored its eighth major debate, our third in Birmingham, Alabama.  The participants on this occasion were Dr. David Berlinski and Christopher Hitchens.  The topic of the debate was this:  Is a purely secular society preferable to a religious one?     Read more (fixed-point.org)

Photos from the event (photos.al.com)

Also

My Father's Debate with Christopher Hitchens
By Claire Berlinski

Read her article here. (ricochet.com)

Hitchens Returns to the Arena

By D.B. Grady (The Atlantic)

" Hitchens is currently undergoing his fourth chemotherapy treatment, which, he is pleased to report, has shrunken his outer tumors. He is now consulting with doctors over the equally perilous choices of irradiation or surgery, or whether, he says, "I am wasting my time."
Read more

Does Atheism Poison Everything?

Christopher Hitchens debated David Berlinski in Birmingham, Alabama on Sept. 7, 2010.

"Hitchens, author of "God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything," defended atheism as a moral stance in a debate attended by about 1,200 at the Birmingham Sheraton Hotel with David Berlinski, author of "The Devil's Delusion: Atheism and Its Scientific Pretensions." Read more. (blog.al.com)



Hitchens spoke at a luncheon with David Berlinski, author of "The Devil's Delusion: Atheism and Its Scientific Pretensions."  Read more (blog.al.com)


Pre-Order 'Does Atheism Poison Everything? DVD here. (fixed-point.org)