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NEWS ABOUT: Christopher Hitchens

Christopher Hitchens stories: 10 news summaries
OPINION

 Media Airbrush 
 Did Kennedy 
 No Favors: 
 Hitchens 

Camelot replay overshadowed real accomplishments, redemption

Aug 31, 09 2:36 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Kennedy “legacy” is not pretty, precisely because it requires so much media “airbrushing” to stay intact. “One of the many dreadful aspects,” Christopher Hitchens writes for Slate, “is the now-unbreakable grip of celebrity politics, image-doctoring, stage management, and ‘torch passing’ rhetoric in general.... More »

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media • Christopher Hitchens • Ted Kennedy • death • Chappaquiddick • Kennedy family • legacy • senator • US Senate • JFK • Edward Kennedy

MUSEUM REVIEW

 Parthenon Gets the 
 Museum It Deserves 


Jun 17, 09 1:52 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Parthenon has been called the one “absolutely right” building on the planet, and it now has a fitting memorial, Christopher Hitchens writes in Vanity Fair. Hitchens is among the first to visit the new Acropolis Museum in Athens, and it does not disappoint. Artifacts, expert reproductions, and... More »

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art museum • Christopher Hitchens • colonialism • Athens • Acropolis • ancient Greece • Parthenon • frieze

 Slate Scribe 
 Gets in Syrian 
 Street Brawl 

Hitchens, two others jumped during junket

Feb 19, 09 9:40 AM CST
(Newser) - Three journalists—including columnist and author Christopher Hitchens—were jumped by thugs during a press junket in Beirut, reports Lawrence Osborne in a column for Forbes. Hitchens “rather gallantly insulted the swastika flag” of a “Syria-loving skinhead party called the SSNP” by scrawling an obscenity on it. He... More »

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Lebanon • Syria • Christopher Hitchens • Vanity Fair • Beirut • author • assault • ethnic violence • swastikas • Bill Maher Grid

OPINION

Fatwa Against Rushdie Set Off Self-Censorship

Edict brought Muslim
culture war to the
West: Hitchens

Jan 5, 09 4:27 PM CST
(Newser) - When Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa against Salman Rushdie, Christopher Hitchens knew what it meant: "This was not just a warning of what was to come,” he writes in Vanity Fair, “it was the warning.” A global culture war, between Muslim fundamentalists and... More »

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Iran • Islam • Christopher Hitchens • censorship • religion • Salman Rushdie • Satanic Verses • fundamentalism • fatwa • Ayatollah Ali Khamenei • Danish Mohammed cartoons • culture wars

OPINION

 Hitchens: 
 We're Now 
 a Banana 
 Republic 

Accountability is nil, the president useless

Oct 10, 08 2:28 PM CDT
(Newser) - The credit crisis has laid bare the failings of US government, writes Christopher Hitchens in Vanity Fair, putting us on par with other banana republics such as Zimbabwe and Venezuela. How else to describe this "collusion between the overweening state and certain favored monopolistic concerns, whereby the profits can... More »

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Zimbabwe • Venezuela • Christopher Hitchens • United States • George W. Bush • credit market chaos • banana republics • financial crisis • Wall Street bailout • Bill Maher Grid

GLOSSIES

 Hitchens Agrees: 
 Waterboarding Is Torture 

Controversial writer puts his money where his mouth is, takes plunge for Vanity Fair

Jul 3, 08 3:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - "You may have read by now the official lie about this treatment, which is that it simulates the feeling of drowning," Christopher Hitchens writes of waterboarding in Vanity Fair. "You feel that you are drowning because you are drowning," concludes the author, who experienced the controversial... More »

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Iraq • torture • Christopher Hitchens • waterboarding • interrogation techniques • military training

Protect Her Like You Promised

Dutch must keep free-speech advocate alive, Rushdie and Harris argue in the LAT

Oct 9, 07 5:47 PM CDT
(Newser) - Former Dutch MP Ayaan Hirsi deserves “the freedoms of speech and conscience we take for granted," argue Salman Rushdie and Sam Harris—who urge the Dutch to keep protecting her from Islamic killers. The Dutch promised protection in 2002, and should “recognize a scandal in the making”... More »

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Somalia • Christopher Hitchens • Netherlands • Salman Rushdie • protection • Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Editor's Murder Shows Failure
of Tolerance

Hitchens hits cops for abetting criminality
in religious guise 

Aug 7, 07 2:47 PM CDT
(Newser) - The notoriously irreligious Christopher Hitchens decries the Oakland police's tolerance of Your Black Muslim Bakery, one of whose employees has been arrested for the murder of Oakland Post editor Chauncey Bailey. In an op-ed for Slate Hitchens writes that the bakery is in fact a front for jihadism and that... More »

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jihad • Christopher Hitchens • murder • Muslim • racism • Oakland • Your Black Muslim Bakery • Chauncey Bailey • tolerance • Ron Dellums • Barbara Lee

Hitchens: Stop Fearing (and Coddling) Islam

'Threat of violence' behind Muslims' demand for religious respect

Jul 31, 07 10:38 AM CDT
(Newser) - Unflappable contrarian Christopher Hitchens asks why he's accused of "insulting 1.5 billion Muslims" whenever he challenges their faith in public. Arguing that no other group takes such umbrage when its empirical beliefs are questioned, the militant secularist concludes that the appeal to Muslims' feelings has an "unmistakable... More »

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Islam • Christopher Hitchens • religion • violence • Muslim • Koran

Hitchens: Lay Off Wolfie!


Apr 19, 07 8:19 AM CDT
(Newser) - Unflappable contrarian Chris Hitchens casts a sympathetic eye at beset World Bank president Paul Wolfowitz. Cries for Wolfowitz's resignation have crescendoed since revelations that he had a hand in getting his girlfriend, Shaha Riza, a big promotion at the poverty-fighting organization last year. More »

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World Bank • Paul Wolfowitz • Shaha Riza • Christopher Hitchens • Neocon • scandal

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