English American author and journalist (1949–2011)
Kevin Williamson of National Review Online examines Christopher Hitchens’ long-running attack on Mother Teresa’s record. For those Mother Teresa served, that which did not kill them kept right on trying…
This is what passes for enlightened intellectualism at Dartmouth. Warning: insulting, anti-religious bigotry below. I am posting it to illustrate that the late Christopher Hitchens’ religious bigotry lives on. An…
There was a time when Christopher Hitchens was clever and quick-witted, even though I disagreed with him. Over the past few years, I’ve found him bitter and mean-spirited. Reading this…
In reviewing Paul Johnson‘s recent biography of Winston Churchill for The Weekly Standard, Steven Hayward ? who’s compared the great British prime minister to America’s 40th president (and others) ?…
While Newsweek turned to Christopher Hitchens to make sense of the surprising choice of President Obama as this year?s Nobel Peace Prize winner, TIME addressed the issue in at least…
Christopher Hitchens‘ latest Newsweek column sets out five categories for which people have collected past Nobel Peace Prize awards, including “service to cynicism, opportunism, and hypocrisy,” and “service to random…
Peering at the “letters to the editor” page in the latest Atlantic, I rolled my eyes as I saw the headline “Lessons From Marx” accompanying a letter from a man…
You?re not alone. Christopher Hitchens throws this jab in his latest Newsweek piece on Lincoln?s legacy: The heavy, brooding statue on the Mall may try to impose unanimity, but the…
Christopher Hitchens on the cult of Obama: The swooning frenzy over the choice of Barack Obama as President of the United States must be one of the most absurd waves…
Christopher Hitchens wonders if it’s Michelle Obama, rather than her husband, who is the real black-power radical: [H]ow is it that the loathsome Wright married him, baptized his children, and…
RALEIGH – Western North Carolina is gaining a new source for political news and public policy commentary. The John Locke Foundation announces today the launch of its new regional Web…
Michael Novak has a wonderful image of God very different Christopher Hitchens’ image of Him as a bad watchmaker. Suppose that the Creator God deliberately made a world of probabilities…