dos chatos ateístas famosos, o hitchens é o meu preferido. são oito ensaios, o último um colagem de suas ideias para textos e uma belíssima declaração de amor de sua companheira. a frase "meu marido era um espetáculo impossível de acompanhar" é bela e triste.ele não nos poupa das já conhecidas cr...
As I thought, I am thoroughly enjoying these essays. I don't think anyone could argue that Hitch was not a good writer. He was brilliant. And I find myself enjoying being able to read someone that I'm usually going to disagree with. As it turns out, it's kind of fun to get all worked up and tr...
"Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent"--George OrwellChristopher Hitchens acted out this lesson from Orwell's essay "Reflections on Gandhi" most explicitly when he testified against Mother Teresa's beatification. But even when he's writing a book that means to prai...
A fairly well-argued debate by both Hitchens and Wilson can be found here. Both make key mistakes during the course of their arguments though. Hitchens makes the mistake that Dawkins, Harris and other "New Atheists" do in making the same kind of bread, unprovable assertions of which they accuse...
Some years ago, in an article about unwritten books that people would like to read, someone selected the yet-to-be-written “Prison Memoirs of Henry Kissinger”. Now aged 90, the chances of Kissinger being tried for his war crimes, much less sent to prison, are rapidly diminishing. However, he has ...
So. I've read it, front to back. Hitchens laments that the faithful (of whatever persuasion) "have believed what the priests and rabbis and imams tell them about what the unbelievers think" (10), and (it follows) he rages that priests, rabbis and imams would presume to know or communicate what at...
In his seventh year in office President Bill Clinton avoided impeachment. The final Senate votes weren’t close. Once again his well-oiled crisis management machine, with strong vocal support from his supporters on the Left, had rallied to save Clinton from the consequences of his actions. Some ce...