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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