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Category Archives: Christopher Hitchens
Christopher Hitchens Was A Crank
I didn’t get all the fulsome praise for him once he croaked. The man was vicious and unstable. He was a dirty debater. Andrew Ferguson writes: In the early 1980s he was convinced that the Reagan administration had colluded in … Continue reading
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Christopher Hitchens Vs. Orthodox Jews
Christopher Hitchens pushes my buttons. I respect his rhetorical abilities, but I hate many of his views. Rabbi Shmuley Boteach echoes many of my thoughts in his latest column in The Jerusalem Post: To read Hitchens these days is to … Continue reading
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Full Version Of Shmuley Boteach’s Debate With Christopher Hitchens On God
It is moderated by Neil Gilman (a philosophy professor from JTS). It took place at the 92nd Street Y Jan. 30, 2008.
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From ’68 agitator to staunch supporter of George W Bush’s Iraq war
Alexander Linklater writes: For most of his 40-year career, Christopher Hitchens’s notoriety has been confined to highbrow journalistic, literary and political circles. In the last 15 years, he has been familiar to readers of Vanity Fair and the Atlantic, and … Continue reading
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Hitchens Vs Boteach
Mediabistro reports: If you saw Friday’s brief item on Christopher Hitchens and Rabbi Shmuley Boteach at the 92nd St. Y and wanted to know more about the "good old-fashioned debate drama" it hinted at, other observers have offered their perspective … Continue reading
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Hitchens, Sharpton and Faith
From The New York Times: You could tell from the background music that played beforehand – alternating recordings of James Brown and Gregorian chant – that this was going to be an unusual debate. The question under debate (“Is God … Continue reading
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Hitchens Glaring Error
Mark Oppenheimer writes: On p. 54, Hitchens writes, "Orthodox Jews conduct Congress by means of a hole in the sheet…" This is, as even most idiots know, a total fabrication. As a lie, it’s not as bad as the blood … Continue reading
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