Christopher Hitchens in Vanity Fair: America the Banana Republic: “Another feature of a banana republic is the tendency for tribal and cultish elements to flourish at the expense of reason and good order. Did it not seem quite bizarre, as the first vote on the rescue of private greed by public money was being taken, [...]
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How to be a public intellectual
May 17th, 2008
Christopher Hitchens, How to be a public intellectual: “One might do worse than to say that an intellectual is someone who does not attempt to soar on the thermals of public opinion. There ought to be a word for those men and women who do their own thinking; who are willing to stand the accusation [...]
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Prospect Magazine: Portrait Christopher Hitchens
April 23rd, 2008
Prospect Magazine, Portrait Christopher Hitchens by Alexander Linklater: “His father couldn’t find it in himself to go to Athens, so Hitchens went alone to bury his mother. A note that she had left revealed that it had been a suicide pact. He also discovered that she had been trying to contact him in the days [...]
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The Four Horsemen
December 24th, 2007
The Four Horsemen – Hour 1 The Four Horsemen – Hour 2 RichardDawkins.net, The Four Horsemen: on Christmas: “All four authors have recently received a large amount of media attention for their writings against religion – some positive, and some negative. In this conversation the group trades stories of the public’s reaction to their recent [...]
Tags: atheism · christopher hitchens · daniel dennett · religion · richard dawkins · sam harris
Ayaan Hirsi Ali: abandoned to fanatics
October 9th, 2007
Salman Rushdie en Sam Harris over Ayaan Hirshi Ali: “Most shamefully, Jan Peter Balkenende, the Dutch prime minister, has recommended that Hirsi Ali simply quit the Netherlands and has refused to grant her even a week’s protection outside the country, during which she might raise funds to hire security of her own. Is this a [...]
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Richard Dawkins on Christopher Hitchkins’ God Is Not Great
September 6th, 2007
Richard Dawkins reviewing Christopher Hitchens’ God Is Not Great in the Times Literary Supplement. Bible belter: “If you are a religious apologist invited to debate with Christopher Hitchens, decline. His witty repartee, his ready-access store of historical quotations, his bookish eloquence, his effortless flow of well-formed words, beautifully spoken in that formidable Richard Burton voice [...]
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Michel Onfray, In Defence of Atheism
July 28th, 2007
While Dawkins makes a strong case for why one doesn’t require a thorough grounding in theology to refute religious certainties (you don’t need to be an expert in fairyology to dispute the existence of fairies), and Hitchens draws on his acute observational skills and tireless globetrotting to report on the way “religion poisons everything” – [...]
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Hitchens Book Debunking The Deity Is Surprise Hit
June 25th, 2007
WSJ: “Says Barbara Meade, a co-owner of the Politics & Prose bookstore in Washington, D.C.: “Part of the appeal is that he’s a personality; we sold 106 books when he visited our store.””
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