Hitchens on Egypt

William A. Jacobson Legal Insurrection 3/7/2011

Christopher Hitchens has really been phenomenal in the past few weeks. In his Vanity Fair April article, he does not disappoint. He mulls over all the revolutions he has seen, and concludes that Egypt is not as poignant as it seems:

Neither in exile nor in the country itself […]

Christopher Hitchens: ‘You have to choose your future regrets’

“Darfur, Zimbabwe, Burma, North Korea, anywhere that the concept of human rights doesn’t exist, it’s always the Chinese at backstop. And always for reasons that you could write down in three words: blood for oil.”

~Christopher Hitchens

Christopher Hitchens photographed at home in Washington, DC. Photograph: Jamie James Medina […]

Christopher Hitchens on tolerance, Islam, and the Ground Zero mosque

Althouse 8/24/2010

“But tolerance is one of the first and most awkward questions raised by any examination of Islamism.”

Writes Christopher Hitchens, noting the naivete of the talk of religious tolerance in defense of the mosque near Ground Zero:

As Western Europe has already found to its cost, local Muslim leaders have a habit, once […]

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