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Christopher Hitchens |
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Christopher Eric Hitchens, nicknamed "Hitch", (13 April 1949 – 15 December 2011) was an English American author, journalist, and professor whose books, essays, and journalistic career spanned more than four decades. He was a columnist and literary critic for The Atlantic, Free Inquiry, The Nation, Salon, Slate, Vanity Fair, World Affairs, and became a media fellow at the Hoover Institution in September 2008. He was a staple of talk shows and lecture circuits and in 2005 was voted the world's fifth top public intellectual in a Prospect/Foreign Policy poll.
Hitchens was known for his admiration of George Orwell, Thomas Paine and Thomas Jefferson and for his excoriating critiques of Mother Teresa, Bill and Hillary Clinton, Henry Kissinger and Britain's royal family, among others. His confrontational style of debate made him both a lauded and controversial figure. As a political observer, polemicist and self-defined radical, he rose to prominence as a fixture of the left-wing...... (Read more on Wikipedia)
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77 days ago |
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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 conclusion. |
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79 days ago |
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Palin's Base Appeal - … From the magazine issue dated Nov 23, 2009 — Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Ernest Gruening: war veteran, former editor of The Nation magazine, and Franklin Roosevelt's nominee for governorship of the then-territory of Alaska in 1939. |
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168 days ago |
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Yale Surrenders - Why did Yale University Press remove images ... - — Why did Yale University Press remove images of Mohammed from a book about the Danish cartoons? — The capitulation of Yale University Press to threats that hadn't even been made yet is the latest and perhaps the worst episode in the steady surrender to religious extremism … |
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211 days ago |
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Did the Toppling of Saddam Hussein Lead to Recent Events in Iran? - — Given the connections between Iraq and Iran, it's not as unlikely as it sounds. — The most exciting and underreported news of the past few weeks in Iran has been that the emerging challenger to the increasingly frantic and isolated … |
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224 days ago |
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Iranian leaders will always believe Anglo-Saxons are plotting against them. - … - There is nothing at all that any Western country can do to avoid the charge of intervening in Iran's foreign affairs. The deep belief that everything—especially anything in English—is already and by definition … |
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Why I'm not sorry that George W. Bush beat Al Gore and John Kerry. - — Yes, yes, I was on the downtown streets of Washington bright and early, mingling with the bright-eyed and the wide-eyed. Yes, by all means I was there on the Mall Sunday afternoon, feeling no more moist than the next person … |
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97 days ago |
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The GOP ticket's appalling contempt for knowledge and learning. - — In an election that has been fought on an astoundingly low cultural and intellectual level, with both candidates pretending that tax cuts can go like peaches and cream with the staggering new levels of federal deficit … |
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