Christopher Hitchens, longtime contributor to The Nation, wrote a wide-ranging, biweekly column for the magazine from 1982 to 2002. With trademark savage wit, Hitchens flattens hypocrisy inside the ...

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I missed out on the opportunity -- if it can be called that -- to engage in a head-to-head with Christopher Hitchens when he came to town earlier this month. He was promoting his latest book, "God Is ...

When a consummately articulate, boundlessly bold journalist stricken with stage 4 esophageal cancer reports from the front lines about facing what he calls, among other things, "hello darkness my old ...

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The need for worthy opponents. The enfant terrible of the New Atheism, Christopher Hitchens, spent his dying days in a Houston hospital reading G. K. Chesterton—not only the 750 pages of Ian Ker’s ...

It seems entirely possible that Christopher Hitchens will be primarily remembered in America for his public atheism. I suspect Hitchens himself was surprised at how wildly popular God Is Not Great ...

Christopher Hitchens was an Atlantic contributing editor and a Vanity Fair columnist. For nearly a dozen years, Christopher Hitchens contributed an essay on books each month to The Atlantic. He was ...

The death of Christopher Hitchens last night, from complications from esophageal cancer at age 62, ended one of the great intellectual careers of the last 40 years. A prolific author and debater, ...

On the higher slopes of Mount Olympus, blurbs are a way by which the gods speak to one another in code, with the whole world watching. By Christopher Buckley The world seems primed for religious ...