Friday, March 2 2012
Exceptional Claims: Principle, Personality and Christopher Hitchens
The late Christopher Hitchens helped define the character and popular perception of Atheism for this generation. But for the self-styled contrarian, where did principle end and personality begin?
Friday, September 2 2011
Humor vs. Religion: An Unholy War, Part One
Even within the US, where democracy and political openness have fostered a rich tradition of rebellious humor, stains still linger from those periods when “God-is-on-our-side” attitudes swept the nation into a mass hysteria of obedience and fear.
Monday, June 13 2011
‘The Quotable Hitchens’ Gives Us the Best of Hitchens, Arranged in a Convenient Dictionary Format
Love him or hate him, Christopher Hitchens nearly always has something interesting to say. The Quotable Hitchens presents some of his pithiest remarks, arranged alphabetically by topic.
Thursday, January 27 2011
Christopher Hitchens’ Taste in Music
Hitchens on Verdi and Dylan, not God or Iraq . . .
Friday, August 28 2009
The Case for God by Karen Armstrong
Promoted as a rebuttal to modern atheist thinkers, notably Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, and Sam Harris, this doesn't feel like a cynical cash-in on a recent publishing phenomenon.
Wednesday, October 15 2008
Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left by Cottee & Cushman, Eds.
How could a critic of empire, a loyal friend to the Palestinians, and the bane of Henry Kissinger ally himself with the Bush administration and its push for imperial adventures in the Middle East?
Friday, June 13 2008
The Family by Jeff Sharlet
What if the American fundamentalists' power and influence became such that they helped destabilize the New Deal, played key roles in anti-Communist foreign policy during the Cold War, and supported numerous bloodthirsty dictators?
Tuesday, February 5 2008
The Portable Atheist
Sectarian strife, an historical constant, and its images of suicide bombings, occupation, and crumbling civil societies are sadly ubiquitous and have fueled the passions of the “New Atheism”. This will not soon abate.
Tuesday, July 10 2007
God Is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens
Atheist polemic refuses to engage authentic religion.
