It's surprising to me how many of my friends send Christmas cards or holiday cards including my atheist and secular friends.
It's surprising to me how many of my friends send Christmas cards or holiday cards including my atheist and secular friends.
Author: Christopher Hitchens
To terrify children with the image of hell… to consider women an inferior creation. Is that good for the world?
To terrify children with the image of hell… to consider women an inferior creation. Is that good for the world?
For most of my life I let women do the driving and was happy to let them.
For most of my life I let women do the driving and was happy to let them.
I'm not particularly a feminist but if you get women off the animal cycle of reproduction and give them some say in how many children they'll have immediately the floor will rise.
I'm not particularly a feminist but if you get women off the animal cycle of reproduction and give them some say in how many children they'll have immediately the floor will rise.
There are people who cannot forget as neither do I the lesson of the years of the Indochina War. Which was first that the state is capable of being a murderer. A mass murderer and a conspirator and a liar.
There are people who cannot forget as neither do I the lesson of the years of the Indochina War. Which was first that the state is capable of being a murderer. A mass murderer and a conspirator and a liar.
A faction willing to take the risks of making war on the ossified status quo in the Middle East can be described as many things but not as conservative.
A faction willing to take the risks of making war on the ossified status quo in the Middle East can be described as many things but not as conservative.
I don't think the war in Afghanistan was ruthlessly enough waged.
I don't think the war in Afghanistan was ruthlessly enough waged.
I love it when Muslims go to war with each other as I do when the Christians do because it shows there's no such thing as the Christian world and the Islamic world. That's all crap.
I love it when Muslims go to war with each other as I do when the Christians do because it shows there's no such thing as the Christian world and the Islamic world. That's all crap.
Even if I accepted that Jesus – like almost every other prophet on record – was born of a virgin I cannot think that this proves the divinity of his father or the truth of his teachings. The same would be true if I accepted that he had been resurrected.
Even if I accepted that Jesus – like almost every other prophet on record – was born of a virgin I cannot think that this proves the divinity of his father or the truth of his teachings. The same would be true if I accepted that he had been resurrected.
My favorite time in the cycles of public life is the time when the Pope is dead and they haven't elected a new one. There's no one in the world who is infallible for those weeks. And you know I don't miss it.
My favorite time in the cycles of public life is the time when the Pope is dead and they haven't elected a new one. There's no one in the world who is infallible for those weeks. And you know I don't miss it.
Ronald Reagan said that he sought a Star Wars defense only in order to share the technology with the tyrants of the U.S.S.R.
Ronald Reagan said that he sought a Star Wars defense only in order to share the technology with the tyrants of the U.S.S.R.
If you look at any Muslim society and you make a scale of how developed they are and how successful the economy is it's a straight line. It depends on how much they emancipate their women.
If you look at any Muslim society and you make a scale of how developed they are and how successful the economy is it's a straight line. It depends on how much they emancipate their women.