Articles by and about Christopher Hitchens

At Last, Christopher Hitchens Describes His Infamous Waxing
-New York's Magazine Daily Intelligencer  November 08, 2007
"Today's "Rush & Molloy" reminds us, as if we could forget, that some poor lady had to wax Christopher Hitchens's balls this year. This, we have noticed, is the most well-publicized hair removal since Britney took hold of a razor in a prison-grade beauty salon."

Christopher Hitchens on Thomas Paine's 'Rights Of Man' - by Richard Brookhiser
-International Herald Tribune November 09, 2007
"Earlier this year, the Atlantic Monthly Press began to publish a series of books on "books that changed the world." Now comes "Thomas Paine's 'Rights of Man': A Biography," an examination by the journalist and polemicist Christopher Hitchens."

Isolationism Isn't the Answer: Jihadists aren't in Afghanistan - or Iraq - because we are there.
-Slate November 05, 2007
"I call your attention to the front-page report in the Oct. 30 New York Times in which David Rohde, writing from the Afghan town of Gardez, tells of a new influx of especially vicious foreign fighters. Describing it as the largest such infiltration since 2001, Rohde goes on to say, "The foreign fighters are not only bolstering the ranks of the insurgency. They are more violent, uncontrollable and extreme than even their locally bred allies."

Christopher Hitchens reads an excerpt from Saul Bellow
-Book TV October 24, 2007
"Contributors to the Atlantic Monthly celebrate the 150th Anniversary of the magazine with selected readings from an edited anthology. The participants include James Fallows, Christopher Hitchens, Mark Bowden, William Langewiesche, and Robert Vare."

Mr. Geniality
-New York Times November 04, 2007
"The elements of this collection fully justify the rather modest promise offered by the title. All things are indeed considered, and they are mostly considered in a highly considerate manner. As to the “due” part, John Updike himself informs us: “Bills come due; dues must be paid. After eight years, I was due for another collection of nonfictional prose.”

Humanist Network News Audio Podcast #24 (links to mp3, 58:35 minutes, Hitchens interview starts at 28:10,  27.5 MB)
-Institute for Humanist Studies October 24, 2007
"In this month's audio podcast we celebrate our program's two-year anniversary by interviewing Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett and Christopher Hitchens. HNN's Duncan Crary interviewed these best-selling authors, a.k.a. "The New Atheists", at the Atheist Alliance International annual conference in September. At the conference, Harris, author of "The End of Faith," told the crowd that they should not identify with the atheist label. Dawkins, Dennett and Hitchens react. So does the Rational Response Squad and Pastor Deacon Fred of the Landover Baptist Church. Also, Sweet Reason gives advice on "coming out" as an atheist."

Divide and Conquer: The United States should be squeezing Turkey, not the othe way around.
-Slate October 29, 2007
"In the past century, the principal victims of genocide or attempted genocide have been, or at least have prominently included, the Armenians, the Jews, and the Kurds. During most of the month of October, events and politicians both conspired to set these three peoples at one another's throats. What is there to be learned from this fiasco for humanity?"

War in Heaven: Hitchens Meets D'Souza on Home Turf - by Meredith Bryan
-The New York Observer October 23, 2007
"Last night at the Society for Ethical Culture, the big question was: whose body count is bigger? Atheism's or Christianity's?"

Hitchens vs. D'Souza: Finally, a Tough Debate - by Mark Grueter
-Christopher Hitchens Watch October 23, 2007
"The first thing I have to say is that Dinesh D’Souza’s wife is a really hot, young, blonde chick. Good for Dinesh! All that right-wing blowhardism is paying off! She marched right up to the front, just like I did, proclaiming her privileged status. At 6:45 pm, in preparation for the 7:30 pm scheduled debate, the line on 64th street was about 150 yards back...."

Defending Islamofascism: It's a valid ter.  Here's why.
-Slate October 22, 2007
"The attempt by David Horowitz and his allies to launch "Islamofascism Awareness Week" on American campuses has been met with a variety of responses. One of these is a challenge to the validity of the term itself. It's quite the done thing, in liberal academic circles, to sneer at any comparison between fascist and jihadist ideology."

An Anglosphere Future - How a shared tradition of ideas and values-not bloodline-can be a force for liberty
-City Journal Autumn 2007
"Having devoured the Sherlock Holmes stories as a boy, I did what their author hoped and graduated to his much finer historical novels.  The best of these, The White Company, appeared in 1890; it describes the recruitment and deployment of a detachment of Hampshire archers during the reign of King Edward III..."

Poison or Cure? Religious Belief in the Modern World
- Ethic and Public Policy Center October 11, 2007
The Ethics and Public Policy Center and the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs at Georgetown University hosted a debate between writer Christopher Hitchens and Oxford University professor Alister McGrath on the role of religious belief in the modern world. The debate was held on October 11, 2007 in Gaston Hall, in Georgetown University's Healy Hall.

Prizing Doris Lessing: The Nobel Committe Finally Get it Right
-Slate October 15, 2007
"Almost intoxicating to see the Nobel committee do something honorable and creditable for a change … It's as though the long, dreary reign of the forgettable and the mediocre and the sinister had been just for once punctuated by a bright flash of talent. And a flash of 88-year-old talent at that, as if the Scandinavians had guiltily remembered that they let Nabokov and Borges die (yes, die) while they doled out so many of their awards to time-servers and second-raters."

FreeThought Radio with Special Guest Christopher Hitchens  (links to mp3, 38 minutes, 34.7 MB)
-FreeThought Radio October 06, 2007
"Freethought Radio's featured guest is Christopher Hitchens, author of the bestselling "God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything."

A Smoke Break With Christopher Hitchens at Ancora -  Kristian Knutsen
-Isthmus The Daily Page October 12, 2007
"Ancora served as a pit-stop for a pair of participants in two of the biggest events being held in town this weekend.  Writer Christopher Hitchens, who is the keynote speaker at the Freedom From Religion Foundation's 30th annual convention at Monona Terrace, stopped by outside the coffee shop wit The Progressive editor Matt Rothschild for some joe and a smoke early Friday afternoon."

The Price of Freedom: If the Dutch government abandons Ayaan Hirsi Ali, America should welcome her
-Slate October 08, 2007
"If any country has enjoyed a long reputation for peaceful and democratic consensus combined with civic fortitude, that country is the Netherlands. It was one of the special countries of the Enlightenment, providing refuge for the family of Baruch Spinoza and for the heterodox Pierre Bayle and René Descartes."

Hitchens delivers breath of reality - by Janice Kennedy
-The Ottawa Citzen October 07, 2007
"With all the fine novels in audiobook format, it is easy to forget that outstanding non-fiction is also available.  Among provocative recent releases is God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything by Christopher Hitchens..."

The Great Assimilator
-The Atlantic Monthly November 2007
"Look first upon this picture, and on this... the two photographs of Saul Bellow that adorn the initial covers of the Library of America edition of his collected works."

A Death in the Family
-Vanity Fair November 2007
"Having volunteered for Iraq, Mark Daily was killed in January by an I.E.D.  Dismayed to learn that his pro war articles helped persuade Daily to enlist, the author measures his words against a family's grief and a young man's sacrifice.


Walking Contradiction - Hitchens take on Jefferson by Sean Nelson
-the Stranger Octobor 03, 2007
"The author of this long-for-a-monograph, too-short-to-be-definitive 2005 biographical study of Thomas Jefferson would almost certainly run screaming-or stand puking-at the notion of having crafted a psychological study of his subject."

Hitchens Holds Forth - by Patricia Best
-Globe and Mail October 04, 2007
"Author Christopher Hitchens was in classic form in Calgary on Tuesday night, starting by pouring himself a large glass of scotch and downing several glasses of wine at a private sponsor's luncheon in the Bennett Jones boardroom atop Banker Hall."

Maintained in China: Burma's foul regime depends on Beijing
-Slate October 01, 2007
"Joining the young and passionate demonstrators outside the office of a certain Washington military attache last week ( and there was I, having thought that my 'demo' days were over) helped me to settle on trivial question..."

The Subtle, Lethal Poison of Religion
-On Faith September 26, 2007
"On Sunday the New York Times reported on the recrudescence of "faith-based" teaching in Russian public schools..."

The Rise of Atheism - A Weekend Convention Links Non-Believers, Highlights Group's Growing Popularity
ABC News / Good Morning America September 30, 2007
"A large convention of atheists gathered today in Virginia, where men, women and children eagerly proclaimed their belief God does not exist."

Run Al Run: If Gore wins the Nobel Peace Prize, will he run for President?
-Slate September 24, 2007
"I am occasionally asked why it is that so many Europeans display reflexive anti-Americanism, and I force myself to choose from a salad of possible answers."

Dennis Miller interview with Christopher Hitchens - audio
-The Dennis Miller Show September 18, 2007

It Was Right To Dissolve the Iraqi Army: We broke America's terrible habit of ruling by proxy through military regimes
-Slate September 17, 2007
"As one who always thought the word surge was ridiculous, I find it pointless to complain that even President Bush uses the term as a cover for retreat."

An Interview with Christopher Hitchens - By C. P. Farley
-Powells.com September 2007
"After Mother Teresa was nominated for beatification in 1997, the Vatican invited Christopher Hitchens to argue the case against her."