One Dove, One Hawk: The Night the Feathers Flew

Staff / Truthdig Apr 1, 2012 “What you have witnessed,” recently elected British MP George Galloway said back in 2005, speaking of Christopher Hitchens’ support for the US-Iraq War, “ is something unique in natural history: the first ever metamorphosis from a butterfly back into a slug”. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Christopher Hitchens on Being Deified

Staff / Truthdig Mar 24, 2012 In 1999, the Hitch got on stage at The Moth -- a New York City venue dedicated to the art of storytelling -- and gave an account of the time his Tamil driver accidentally killed a Sri Lankan, an act that saw Hitchens deified and led him to his reassurance that all tales about divine intervention are false. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

My Consensus, Right or Wrong

Staff / Truthdig Mar 21, 2012 With the revival of The Baffler, former WSJ columnist and current Harper’s Magazine contributor Thomas Frank reveals that success in Washington and big business has everything to do with belonging to the right pack, especially if that pack was dead wrong about the economy. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Christopher Hitchens on Forced Merriment

Staff / Truthdig Dec 25, 2011 With the sensibility of an iconoclastic elf eyeing a parade of indiscriminate merrymaking unfurling all around him, Christopher Hitchens holds forth on the absurdities of the Christmas season in one of the first of his posthumously published essays Christopher Hitchens holds forth on the <a href="http://online . Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

For Christopher Hitchens

Mr. Fish / Truthdig Dec 17, 2011 It was like meeting a clown outside of his makeup, away from the hysteria of his profession, who appears lovely and handsome and noble, if only because he isn’t trapped in a spotlight at the center of a ludicrous pie fight. It was like meeting a clown outside of his makeup, who appears lovely and handsome and noble, if only because he isn’t trapped in a spotlight at the center of a ludicrous pie fight. Dig deeper ( 15 Min. Read )

‘Left, Right & Center’: Leaving Iraq, for Better or Worse

Staff / Truthdig Dec 17, 2011 What's America's legacy in Iraq going to be? Can we read it accurately from this moment, now that the war is "officially" over? Also on this week's rundown of topics for "Left, Right & Center" panelists Robert Scheer, Matt Miller, Chrystia Freeland and Mark Tapscott are Fannie and Freddie vs. the SEC and a farewell to Christopher Hitchens. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Hedges on Hitchens

BLANK Dec 17, 2011 Though he gives credit to Christopher Hitchens' exceptional talent, Chris Hedges remembers the newly departed writer differently from the way others might in this clip from CBC Radio. In an unflinching appraisal, Hedges recalls what Hitchens got wrong about religion, his biggest intellectual failing and what it was like to engage him in a debate. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Christopher Hitchens: Reason in Revolt

Robert Scheer / Truthdig Dec 16, 2011 What zeal this man had to eviscerate the conceits of the powerful, whether their authority derived from wealth, the state or a claim to the ear of the divine . Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Rest in Peace, Comrade

Staff / Truthdig Dec 16, 2011 Christopher Hitchens died Thursday of esophageal cancer. He was, in the words of The Washington Post, "master of the contrarian essay" and, as his home publication Vanity Fair describes him, "a wit, a charmer and a troublemaker." (more) Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Hitchens: Shame on U.S. and Pakistan

Staff / Truthdig Jun 6, 2011 In his latest, scathingly critical essay for Vanity Fair, Christopher Hitchens makes it eminently clear that he isn't buying any of the stories the US and Pakistani governments are selling about their increasingly complicated (and, in Hitchens' view, hypocritical) relationship (more). Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Critics Call ‘King’s Speech’ Historically Incorrect

Staff / Truthdig Jan 28, 2011 With "The King's Speech" sitting comfortably atop this year's heap of Oscar-nominated films, it's not surprising that there might be some grumbles from critical corners about the movie's actual merits But in this case, a couple prominent voices . Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

‘Dying’ Hitchens Talks Mortality, Religion

Staff / Truthdig Aug 10, 2010 In this frank discussion with The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg and with Martin Amis, an ailing Christopher Hitchens stares down his own mortality and makes it clear that if he appears to embrace religion at any point (continued). Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )