dos chatos ateístas famosos, o hitchens é o meu preferido. são oito ensaios, o último um colagem de suas ideias para textos e uma belíssima declaração de amor de sua companheira. a frase "meu marido era um espetáculo impossível de acompanhar" é bela e triste.ele não nos poupa das já conhecidas cr...
As I thought, I am thoroughly enjoying these essays. I don't think anyone could argue that Hitch was not a good writer. He was brilliant. And I find myself enjoying being able to read someone that I'm usually going to disagree with. As it turns out, it's kind of fun to get all worked up and tr...
"Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent"--George OrwellChristopher Hitchens acted out this lesson from Orwell's essay "Reflections on Gandhi" most explicitly when he testified against Mother Teresa's beatification. But even when he's writing a book that means to prai...
A fairly well-argued debate by both Hitchens and Wilson can be found here. Both make key mistakes during the course of their arguments though. Hitchens makes the mistake that Dawkins, Harris and other "New Atheists" do in making the same kind of bread, unprovable assertions of which they accuse...
Some years ago, in an article about unwritten books that people would like to read, someone selected the yet-to-be-written “Prison Memoirs of Henry Kissinger”. Now aged 90, the chances of Kissinger being tried for his war crimes, much less sent to prison, are rapidly diminishing. However, he has ...
So. I've read it, front to back. Hitchens laments that the faithful (of whatever persuasion) "have believed what the priests and rabbis and imams tell them about what the unbelievers think" (10), and (it follows) he rages that priests, rabbis and imams would presume to know or communicate what at...
In his seventh year in office President Bill Clinton avoided impeachment. The final Senate votes weren’t close. Once again his well-oiled crisis management machine, with strong vocal support from his supporters on the Left, had rallied to save Clinton from the consequences of his actions. Some ce...
Among his many books, perhaps none have sparked more outrage than The Missionary Position, Christopher Hitchens's meticulous study of the life and deeds of Mother Teresa. A Nobel Peace Prize recipient beatified by the Catholic Church in 2003, Mother Teresa of Calcutta was celebrated by heads of s...
How Uninviting IN JANUARY OF this year, I was invited by a group called the Republican Jewish Coalition to come and speak at a public meeting. The subject was the UN “oil for food” program or, to give it another name, the means by which the corruption of the United Nations had actually helped Sad...
That was a secret of leadership.” In reaction to a certain mode of flag-displaying faux national unity after the cataclysmic events of 11 September 2001, I wrote an article that proposed instead a sort of activist reticence that might be better designed for a long and arduous confrontation. In th...
His academic work in astronomy and his gift for clear exposition took him from the pinnacles of Harvard and Cornell to the more demotic arena of television and film and fiction, where his novel Contact won him widespread renown. Not unlike Bertrand Russell, Sagan had the faculty of connecting anc...
On the other hand, who would be so incurious as to leave unexamined the influence and motives of a woman who once boasted of operating more than five hundred convents in upward of 105 countries—“without counting India”? Lone self-sacrificing zealot, or chair of a missionary multinational? The sca...