Christopher Hitchens: one man’s service in the war against delusion
Last October, Christopher Hitchens received the Atheist Alliance of America's Richard Dawkins award. This is an edited version of his acceptance speechWell, I'm overwhelmed ladies and gentlemen, and I did promise Richard [Dawkins, who presented his epo...
Breaking the chains
Over the past decade Hitchens has taken a combative stance on world events. He reflects on these writingsThree men: Mohamed Bouazizi, Abu-Abdel Monaam Hamedeh, and Ali Mehdi Zeu – a Tunisian street vendor, an Egyptian restaurateur and a Libyan husban...
Christopher Hitchens: ‘The righteous will evidently never tire of the pelting and taunting of Tony Blair’
The author and journalist gives his verdict on Tony Blair's memoirThe righteous will evidently never tire of the pelting and taunting of Tony Blair, and perhaps those like him who choose to join the Roman choir of extreme unctuousness must expect their...
The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama by David Remnick | Book review
Christopher Hitchens is fascinated buy the mix of luck and judgment that made Barack Obama
Bill Clinton promised a bridge to the 21st century; Sarah Palin railed against an Alaskan "bridge to nowhere"; Simon and Garfunkel crooned of a bridge over troubled water, and Ian Paisley, asked about intercommunal...
Christopher Hitchens re-reads Animal Farm
Still outlawed by regimes around the world, Animal Farm has always been political dynamite – so much so, it was nearly never published. Christopher Hitchens on George Orwell's timeless, transcendent 'fairy story'
Animal Farm, as its author later wrote, "was the first book in which I tried, with full...
