Plus: We meet the Hitch! Allison joins us to talk about “The Only Subject Is Love,” a seminar we attended at Emory University featuring Salman Rushdie, Christopher Hitchens, and filmmaker Deepa Mehta (who is developing a film adaptation of Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children). The event celebrates the opening of Rushdie’s archives at Emory. Surprises included spontaneous recitations of poetry (Hitchens selecting the heartwrenching “Dulce et Decorum est,” Rushdie the humorous “The Walrus and the Carpenter.”) And…we learned that Hitchens’ memoir–Hitch 22–is due out in June!
Christopher Hitchens vents his anger and frustration with Yale University Press over their decision to publish a book about the Jyllands-Posten Mohammed cartoons flap–without including the cartoons in question!The Cartoons that Shook the World, by Brandeis Univ. professor Jytte Klausen, will hit bookshelves in late November, and will (presumably) include illuminating detail on the history of the cartoons, the outrage fomented by Islamic extremists, and its deadly fallout. But. No. Cartoons.
In a nutshell (and I hope I’m fairly summarizing his point), Wright argues that the venomous “religion is all bad and the cause of most of the world’s problems” attitude of Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris is a stumbling block to peace in the Middle East.
Rapper/actor/whatever Mos Def has entered my unofficial list of World’s Stupidest Celebrities–by which I do not mean he has a low IQ. I mean that he seems to let his desires override his intellect, and is unwilling to admit when he’s been proven wrong, that he now knows more than he did five minutes ago, and move on. Mr. Def is in no danger of knocking Sherri Shepherd off the top of the pyramid, but if he works hard enough…well, here’s an excerpt from his recent appearance on Real Time with Bill Maher. It’s not every day you see a guy get owned by Salman Rushdie and Christopher Hitchens at the same time. Fabulous. [This clip may be removed by YouTube soon, so if you get a bad link...sorry!]
Hmmm. This could be complete malarkey, but the buzz in the blogosphere is that our favorite curmudgeonly contrarian anti-theist, Christopher Hitchens, got beaten up in Lebanon after he defaced a political poster. Whether true, partially true, or completely false, it only adds to the bizarre reputation of Mr. Hitchens. [Update: A "dispatch" posted at Forbes.com seems to confirm this story.]
Christopher Hitchens delivers his latest blast of nontheistic spleen-venting against Rick Warren (who will offer up the invocation at Barack Obama’s inauguration). Leave it to ol’ Hitch to come up with phrases like “happy-slappy Sunday ‘Churchianity’ mega-feel-good fiestas.”
The Portable Atheist by Christopher Hitchens – We take a look at the latest collection of writing selected and introduced by the Bad Boy of Unbelievers!
Hitchens rewrites the 10C
Friday, March 5th, 2010Tags: christopher hitchens, ten commandments
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