Christopher Hitchens
I Realized I Was a Cliché: A Drunk Writer Who Couldn’t Write Drunk
During my Year of Sherry, I realized that I was essentially losing money by writing.
Are Islamophobic Atheists to Blame for the North Carolina Shooting?
Some say that angry rhetoric preached by "New Atheists" like Richard Dawkins is partially to blame for Craig Hicks killing three Muslim students in Chapel Hill.
Gross Old Men Are Hot and Bothered by War
Dropping bombs is sold as a way to liberate women, but it's also how some men get off.
How to Make Atheism Less Awful in 2014
At the start of 2014 there are four broad—and overlapping—schisms in atheism, which can be summed up as: Dicks vs. Cowards, Islamophobes vs. More Cowards, Misogynists vs. Feminists, and Americans vs. Europeans. There has to be a better way.
New Atheism's Nasty Streak of Islamophobia
If your project is to convince people that religion is evil and should be wiped from the face of the earth, and that rational, enlightened atheism is the beacon of truth towards which we must steer the storm-battered ship of the human race, is directly...
Cancer Memoirs Are Breaking Out Like the Plague
The thing that motors cancer journalism, which makes it increasingly acceptable, even good, for hacks to tell all about the very darkest moments of their lives, is our craven culture of voyeurism. Nothing can remain private anymore, especially the bad...
A Remembered 'Hitchslap' For The Worst Censors of All, Ourselves
For all his smart, merciless and often polarizing diatribes on the tyrannical nature of organized religion, there is a spot amongst the vast and scathing rhetoric of Christopher Hitchens we'd all do well to explore in wake of his passing. With "SOPA...