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Christopher Hitchens

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Posted on March 3, 2008 by Steve Pollak

Review: Lawrence Bush's "Waiting for God"

For someone who doesn’t believe in God, Lawrence Bush sure knows a lot about religion. As the son of avowedly secular Jewish socialists, the brother of an Orthodox Christian, the former speechwriter for a prominent Reform rabbi and the editor … Continue reading →

Posted on February 21, 2008 by Steve Pollak

Christopher Hitchens on anti-Semitism and pre-WWII Austria

In the March issue of The Atlantic, Christopher Hitchens reviews Gregor von Rezzori's Memoirs of an Anti-Semite, a newly reissued 1979 novel. Hitchens, who seemed to like the book, talked about how the irrationality of anti-Semitism took root in pre-WWII … Continue reading →

Posted on November 14, 2007 by Steve Pollak

Christopher Hitchens on Saul Bellow

Christopher Hitchens recently spoke about Saul Bellow at the Politics and Prose bookstore in Washington D.C. As you’ll see in the video below, Hitchens reads aloud a disturbingly graphic passage from Bellow’s 1970 novel, Mr. Sammler’s Planet. Yes, it’s the … Continue reading →