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Christopher Hitchens is a former columnist for The Nation and other progressive publications. In the months following 9/11, he renounced some of his former leftist views and departed from The Nation. He now writes for Vanity Fair, The Atlantic Monthly, Slate.com, and The Weekly Standard, according to his Atlantic Monthly biography.

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The "war on terrorism" didn't cause the Fort Hood shootings.

It's both amusing and educational to observe a consensus when it suddenly starts to give way at all points without yielding an inch. A couple of weeks ago, the consoling view was that Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan was a man more to be pitied than feared, a ...

From CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS, Slate,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Federal Bureau of Investigation,  Nidal Malik Hasan,  Anwar al-Awlaki,  Washington Post Company,  Robert Wright

Hard Evidence

http://www.slate.com/id/2235760/pagenum/all/#p2 The admonition not to rush to judgment or jump to conclusions might sound fair and prudent enough, perhaps even statesmanlike when uttered by the president, as long it's borne in mind that such advice is ...

From CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS - SLATE, RichardDawkins.net,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Nidal Malik Hasan,  Federal Bureau of Investigation,  Anwar al-Awlaki,  Al-Qaeda

Seven salient facts about Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan.

The admonition not to rush to judgment or jump to conclusions might sound fair and prudent enough, perhaps even statesmanlike when uttered by the president, as long it's borne in mind that such advice is itself a judgment that is more than halfway to a ...

From CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS, Slate,  16 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Nidal Malik Hasan,  Federal Bureau of Investigation,  Anwar al-Awlaki,  Al-Qaeda,  Christopher Hitchens

Christopher Hitchens on Stieg Larsson

Journalist and novelist Stieg Larsson in Stockholm in 1998, six years before his death. By Jan Collsioo/Scanpix/Sipa Press. Isuppose it’s justifiable to describe “best-selling” in quasi-tsunami terms because when it happens it’s partly a wall and ...

From CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS, Vanity Fair,  16 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Christopher Hitchens,  Costco,  Saab,  George MacDonald (politician),  Bobby Fischer

The lessons of 1989.

Lenin once defined a revolutionary situation as one that occurred when the rulers could not go on in the traditional way and the ruled did not wish to continue in that old way. Engels was more metaphorical, saying that revolution was the midwife that ...

From CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS, Slate,  8 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Lech Walesa,  Mikhail Gorbachev,  Eduard Shevardnadze,  Ronald Reagan,  Margaret Thatcher

The United Nations' shameful complicity in this year's corrupt Afghan elections.

If the time ever does come when we look back on our intervention in Afghanistan as a humiliating debacle, this past weekend may well be identified as one of the moments when the calamity became irreversible. In the prelude to the 2004 elections in ...

From CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS, Slate,  2 Nov 2009

Related Topics: United Nations,  Taliban,  Hamid Karzai,  Peter Galbraith,  Ban Ki-moon

Faith No More

Thanks to SPS for the link. http://www.slate.com/id/2233586 This week sees the opening on various cinema marquees of the film Collision: a buddy-and-road movie featuring last year's debates between Pastor Douglas Wilson, who is a senior fellow at New ...

From CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS - SLATE, RichardDawkins.net,  27 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Newsweek,  Stephen Fry,  Richard Dawkins

What I've learned from debating religious people around the world.

Ever since I invited any champion of faith to debate with me in the spring of 2007, I have been very impressed by the willingness of the other side to take me, and my allies, up on the offer. A renowned scholar like Richard Dawkins, who is quite used ...

From CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS, Slate,  26 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Richard Dawkins,  Bob Jones,  Jerry Falwell,  Barack Obama

Christopher Hitchens: Collision: Is Religion Absurd or Good for the World?

Last fall, we went on tour debating the topic "Is Religion Good For The World?" Our arguments were captured on film for a new documentary, Collison. Are our morals dictated to us by a supreme entity or do discoveries made by science and reason, make ...

From CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS, Huffington Post,  20 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Christopher Hitchens,  Kim Jong-il,  New York Yankees,  John Cage

Why on earth would we wait to disarm Iran?

A contradiction must be faced by those of us who don't especially like the propaganda name neoconservative but who wish that there was a useful term for someone who favors a robust American attitude toward totalitarian and aggressive states. This ...

From CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS, Slate,  19 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Saddam Hussein,  Slobodan Milosevic,  NATO,  European Union,  United Nations

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