Hezbollah's Progress

How the Party of God became Lebanon's most powerful faction.

By Christopher Hitchens

"Writing from southern Lebanon in the mid-to-late 1970s, during the continuing war of attrition between Israel and the PLO and at a time when the country's long-relegated Shiite minority was just beginning to get itself organized, I noticed the presence of an almost unremarked token force of Iranian troops."  Read More (Slate)

Hitchens/Blair Debate - MORE TICKETS!

Everyone, log on to http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/hitchensblair/ and sign the petition. Do it right away to give the organizers time to relocate the event and to release more tickets for this debate. Remember, it has happened before. Hitchens' debates have been relocated due to great demand, so this is absolutely possible.

You could also email the organizers at http://www.munkdebates.com/organizers.

Hitchens brothers debate over whether civilization can survive without God. (Clip)

Christopher and Peter, Pew Research Center's Forum on Religion and Public life, Oct 12, 2010



Link to CNN Belief Blog

Listen to "Hitchens Brothers Agree to Disagree over God.
npr.org (3 min 50 sec)

Christopher and Peter Hitchens debate religion against brutal backdrop

By Michelle Boorstein

Sitting before a highly unusual forum at the Pew Research Center this afternoon were the provocateur atheist writer Christopher Hitchens, thinned and bald from ongoing chemotherapy, and his brother, Peter, a journalist and devout Christian. The brothers have had a largely estranged, cold relationship but had agreed to a gentle debate on the subject about which they both have recently published books -- God.


Read More (washingtonpost.com)

Christopher Hitchens and Tony Blair to debate Religion

Friday, November 26, 2010. 7 pm.
Roy Thomson Hall, Toronto, Canada.

“This debate is not about the existence of God,” says Rudyard Griffiths, co-director and moderator of the Munk Debates. “We have asked Mr. Blair and Mr. Hitchens to wrestle with the more immediate question facing developed and developing nations: Is religion a force for peace or conflict in the modern world?”

More info:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/hitchens-blair-to-debate-role-of-faith/article1752752/

http://www.munkdebates.com/debates/Religion

The Politicians We Deserve

What normal person would put up with the inane indignities of the electoral process?

By Christopher Hitchens

Read More (Slate)

Tumortown

By Christopher Hitchens

Peach pits, open chakras, macrobiotic diets: cancer patients get more unsolicited advice than they could possibly follow. Cutting-edge medicine seems to offer limitless options, too—until the author runs smack into the lethal idiocy of the godly opponents of stem-cell research.

Read more (Vanity Fair, November 2010)

Is Islam a Religion of Peace?

9 min. clip from the Hitchens - Ramadan debate: Is Islam a Religion of Peace? Moderated by Laurie Goodstein. October 5, 2010 at the 92nd Street Y

Coming up..

CH on DUTV: "Part one of a two-part interview with author and journalist Christopher Hitchens will air on Tuesday, October 5 at 8 p.m., repeating Saturday, October 9 and Sunday, October 10 at 10 a.m. DUTV can be seen throughout Philadelphia on Comcast Cable channel 54 and in West Philadelphia on channel 62. On the University City Main Campus, DUTV can be seen on channel 33."
http://www.drexel.edu/news/digest/?d=10/4/2010&id=10088

Oct 5, 6pm, Live via satellite, Christopher Hitchens and Tariq Ramadan: “Is Islam a religion of peace?”
http://www.vaildaily.com/article/20101003/AE/101009937/1078&ParentProfile=1062

Not So Hidden Influences

Is it so offensive to note the effectiveness of the Jewish lobby?

By Christopher Hitchens

"I wasted a little time before writing this article, to see if I could produce a satire or a parody. This would have consisted of a fundraising letter from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee to a potential donor."

Continue reading (Slate)

God or No God - A Debate

Christopher Hitchens debates Larry Taunton, Executive Director of Fixed Point Foundation.
October 19, Billings, Montana. 7pm. More (fixed-point.org)

Is Obama's Foreign Policy Working?

September 22, 2010. Elebash Recital Hall, New york. CH, Peter Beinart, George Packer.

The panel discusses America's position in, and relationship to, the rest of the world under Obama and whether or not his foreign policy has been effective.

Hitchens debate sparks controversy

By Alex Olson, Sept 27, 2010.

Noted journalist Christopher Hitchens squared off against College of William and Mary government professor Lawrence Wilkerson on U.S. Middle East policy Monday night. The Sadler Center’s Commonwealth Auditorium was packed to full capacity with students and faculty, who gathered to hear the Vanity Fair columnist and author debate Wilkerson, who served as chief of staff to former Secretary of State Colin Powell.  Continue reading (flathatnews.com)

God's Bigmouths

Men like Bishop Eddie Long are fouling the legacy of the civil rights movement.
By Christopher Hitchens
"Passing through Union Station in Washington, D.C., last week, I made my usual nod to the statue of A. Phillip Randolph."Continue reading (Slate)