Hitchens's Pain Over Iraq

April 21, 2012 By 13 Comments

One of the darkest stains on Christopher Hitchens’s legacy is his support for the Iraq War. Andrew Sullivan, a close friend of Hitchens who also mistakenly supported the war, attended a memorial service for him and reported back: [Martin] Amis spoke of Christopher’s private struggle with his embrace of the Iraq war. He never recanted [...]

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Christopher Hitchens Would Have Turned 63 Today

April 13, 2012 By 19 Comments

My thoughts on his passing. Your Thoughts?

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Christopher Hitchens On Visiting Kim Jung-il's Nightmarish North Korea

December 20, 2011 By 5 Comments

Here is an article he wrote on North Korea. Your Thoughts?

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December 20, 2011 By 1 Comment

      for Christopher Hitchens, by Helen Sotriadis of Too Many Tribbles. ©2011 helen sotiriadis. View the photo “in the dark”. More of her photos inspired by Christopher Hitchens are here. See a video slideshow of more of her photos here.

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Christopher Hitchens and Freethinking Parenting At Its Best

December 18, 2011 By 1 Comment

One of our last, and by far the most touching, videos we have of Christopher Hitchens comes from the Texas Freethought Convention this past October. Watching him with the charmingly and precociously smart little girl in the video, he is downright grandfatherly: Mason was interviewed afterward: Why did you decide it was important to ask [...]

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Hitchens's Eulogists and Detractors

December 17, 2011 By 1 Comment

When Hitchens was asked earlier this year “whether he felt he had been a good person”: he gave a dismissive shrug: “Not particularly.” For that definition to apply, he said, the world expects a good deal of selflessness. “And while no one scores very high on that, I score lower than most.” He had seen his [...]

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A Few Christian Replies to Hitchens's Death Worth Noting

December 17, 2011 By 6 Comments

Shortly before Christopher Hitchens’s death, Andrew Sullivan movingly reminisced about him and gave a sense of how their friendship was so strong despite such differing views on faith:

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Hitch-22 As Read By Hitchens Himself

December 17, 2011 By 5 Comments

On YouTube you can listen to Christopher Hitchens read his entire memoir Hitch-22 to you. Got an afternoon? Your Thoughts?

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Hitchens on Mother Theresa, Hitler, and Immortality

December 17, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Few of those left on the planet can say this much this true this well, in just 7 minutes: His documentary take down of Mother Theresa can be seen here.

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In Memory of Christopher Hitchens, A Nietzschean Lion

December 16, 2011 By 15 Comments

Christopher Hitchens was not fond of Nietzsche. When I picked up his Portable Atheist I flipped to the table of contents to see what Nietzsche selections he’d included. And saw none. None?? Possibly the most famous, unabashed, and irreverent atheist of all time was not worthy of inclusion in Hitchens’s compendium? A brief remark found [...]

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