One of the writers whose courage and polemical force I highly admire is Christopher Hitchens. He gives frequent proof of a passionate honesty, which sometimes has obliged him to criticize ideological ...

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 ...

Hitch was the nickname of two brilliant men who were born in England and died in the US. One was Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980) ...

“Why [should] he that has nothing to write…desire to be a writer?” Samuel Johnson once asked in his review of a book that endeavored to prove the existence of God. Though Johnson was an ardent ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Already infamous for being the then-socialist who called Margaret Thatcher sexy and as the contrarian who loved George W. Bush's war in Iraq, Christopher Hitchens now wants to ...

DALLAS (Reuters) - Combative writer Christopher Hitchens doesn't mince words in his new book. He thinks religion has done no good. In the just published "god is not Great: How Religion Poisons ...

Sometimes, you just need a cathedral. That’s not a statement about religion, or at least it needn’t be. It’s a statement about space. When you have spent an inordinate amount of time in confined ...

Once an intellectual taboo, atheism has become one of the great growth industries of the third millennium. Combative atheist titles like Christopher Hitchens’ God Is Not Great, Richard Dawkins’ The ...

His CIA code name is Condor. In the next seventy-two hours almost everyone he trusts will try to kill him.

“I miss Christopher Hitchens,” the Americana songwriter Conor Oberst sung on his heart-excising 2016 album Ruminations. “I miss Oliver Sacks. I miss poor Robin Williams. I miss Sylvia Plath. Every ...