The last time I saw Christopher Hitchens was on a sunny summer day on Irving Place. I had just had Christopher Hitchens, as he once was. “Gallagher,” (he always addressed me by my surname) “You’re ...

Jacques Berlinerblau’s essay on Christopher Hitchens’s God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything is a provocative contribution to ongoing conversations about religion and society (“Secularism ...

With the possible exception of Tom Wolfe and Maureen Dowd’s, Christopher Hitchens’ marvelous byline is the most archly kinetic in current-day American letters. Every article, review and essay has the ...

Religious teachings are immoral. Religion promotes hatred. An atheist will eventually get elected in the U.S. So writes provocateur author Christopher Hitchens in his new book, God is Not Great: How ...

Fri, 16 Dec 2011 13:16:55 GMT — Cancer weakened, but did not soften Christopher Hitchens. He did not repent or forgive or ask for pity. As if granted diplomatic immunity, his mind's eye looked plainly ...

When a consummately articulate, boundlessly bold journalist stricken with stage 4 esophageal cancer reports from the front lines about facing what he calls, among other things, "hello darkness my old ...

The late Christopher Hitchens was not only a great writer, he had a great appreciation for alcohol. And he got a lot of mileage from an incident that occurred in Aspen back in 1990. Here’s his account ...

Christopher Hitchens, longtime contributor to The Nation, wrote a wide-ranging, biweekly column for the magazine from 1982 to 2002. With trademark savage wit, Hitchens flattens hypocrisy inside the ...

Christopher Hitchens was an Atlantic contributing editor and a Vanity Fair columnist. For nearly a dozen years, Christopher Hitchens contributed an essay on books each month to The Atlantic. He was ...

Where does Hitchens’ legacy stand? Have events vindicated his worldview, what he claimed to have lived for? What’s striking is how distinct these two questions are. Because what defined the man is not ...

On the higher slopes of Mount Olympus, blurbs are a way by which the gods speak to one another in code, with the whole world watching. By Christopher Buckley The world seems primed for religious ...