Read more Christopher Hitchens stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/1295/christopher-hitchens.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 4:46:25 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/68245/media-airbrush-did-kennedy-no-favors-hitchens.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe 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.” But even the venomous pundit saves...http://www.newser.com/story/68245/media-airbrush-did-kennedy-no-favors-hitchens.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 31 Aug 2009 14:36:17 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/62102/parthenon-gets-the-museum-it-deserves.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe 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 a stunning...http://www.newser.com/story/62102/parthenon-gets-the-museum-it-deserves.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 17 Jun 2009 13:52:01 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/51221/slate-scribe-gets-in-syrian-street-brawl.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThree 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 got gashed...http://www.newser.com/story/51221/slate-scribe-gets-in-syrian-street-brawl.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 19 Feb 2009 9:40:01 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/47070/fatwa-against-rushdie-set-off-self-censorship.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWhen 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 everyone else, had begun. Now Khomeini is...http://www.newser.com/story/47070/fatwa-against-rushdie-set-off-self-censorship.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 05 Jan 2009 16:27:37 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/39642/hitchens-were-now-a-banana-republic.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe 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 be...http://www.newser.com/story/39642/hitchens-were-now-a-banana-republic.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 10 Oct 2008 14:28:01 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/31454/hitchens-agrees-waterboarding-is-torture.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tag"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 interrogation technique himself. "I...http://www.newser.com/story/31454/hitchens-agrees-waterboarding-is-torture.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 03 Jul 2008 15:10:01 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/9136/protect-her-like-you-promised.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFormer 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” as they debate...http://www.newser.com/story/9136/protect-her-like-you-promised.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 09 Oct 2007 17:47:07 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/5410/editors-murder-shows-failure-of-tolerance.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe 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...http://www.newser.com/story/5410/editors-murder-shows-failure-of-tolerance.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 07 Aug 2007 14:47:57 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/5029/hitchens-stop-fearing-and-coddling-islam.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagUnflappable 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 note of...http://www.newser.com/story/5029/hitchens-stop-fearing-and-coddling-islam.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 31 Jul 2007 10:38:39 CDT