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Why the Mail's Peter Hitchens won't be making Hay | Media Monkey
London :: United Kingdom | 22 days ago
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David Levene for the Guardian A strange notion that a festival sponsored by the Telegraph might hold out its hand to liberals and set its face against writers perceived to be too conservative. But the shunning of David Goodhart, author of the
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Christopher Hitchens's Handwritten Notes in The Great Gatsby
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 1 month ago
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Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby for themes that, despite their age, had resonance in the post-millennial age. Hitchens's stream-of-consciousness commentary, dutifully handwritten in the novel's margins, illuminates his train of thought as he
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British ambassador laments his two ‘lost decades'
Hirado :: Japan | 2 months ago
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Tim Hitchens, the new British ambassador to Japan, has observed with his own eyes the country's economic transition since he first visited here as a teenager back in the 1970s. But even as Japan stumbled through economic turbulence from the oil
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The Iraq war and the left: ten years on
Baghdad :: Iraq | 4 months ago
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No event since the 1984 miners' strike has divided the left more than the Iraq war. Friendships were ended, political reputations were destroyed and antagonists accused each other of betrayal. Few were more stridently supportive of the US-led
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Slate Brings Back Hitchens To Trash Pope's 'Stench of Evil'
New York City :: NY :: USA | 4 months ago
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Christopher Hitchens has been brought back from the dead by Slate, but it won't do them any good. Yesterday, they republished a hit piece by the atheist from 2010 that was vintage Hitchens: the man was a great polemicist but a third-class scholar.
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Unhitched: the Trial of Christopher Hitchens, By Richard Seymour
Bucharest :: Romania | 5 months ago
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Barely a year after his death by cancer of the oesophagus born with striking stoicism and, as his friend Ian McEwan put it, much consoled by his unbelief, Christopher Hitchens is here arraigned and sentenced for apostasy: for joining the company of
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Christopher Hitchens: A Jingo in Every Essential Way
New York City :: NY :: USA | 5 months ago
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Jan 24, 2013 Watching the towers fall in New York, Hitchens told David Horowitz's Frontpage magazine in 2003, with civilians incinerated on the planes and in the buildings, I felt something that I couldn't analyze at first and didn't fully grasp. I
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Putting Christopher Hitchens on Trial
Baghdad :: Iraq | 5 months ago
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Jan 23, 2013 Gregory Shupak at In These Times: Accuracy, Seymour demonstrates, was not a major hang-up for Hitchens. Hitchens referred to Hugo Chavez as the General even though the Venezuelan never held that rank; said that Muammar Gaddafi turned
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Christopher Hitchens: from socialist to neocon
Baghdad :: Iraq | 5 months ago
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Shannon Stapleton/Reuters " To be able," wrote the late Christopher Hitchens , "to bray that 'as a liberal, I say bomb the shit out of them,' is to have achieved that eye-catching, versatile marketability that is so beloved of editors and talk-show
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PAPER TRAIL: Jan 17, 2013 @ 12:18:00 am
London :: United Kingdom | 5 months ago
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Tyrant Bookswhich has published work by Brian Evenson, Blake Butler, and Sam Michel, among othershad plans to release What Purpose Did I Serve in Your Life , by the much-discussed author Marie Calloway, in June. But this week, Tyrant publisher
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