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Writing exercise #1: Deconstruction

Just for fun writing exercise, this time about a religious Ph.D. candidate in philosophy and what he had to say about Christopher Hitchens. His article can be found in crisis magazine. Please be candid with your comments and lay out to me where grammar and rhetoric are still lacking I would like to exercise and exorcise the vacuity ...

8 May, 2017

atheism, deconstruction, exercise, Hitchens, rationality, religion, writing

Philosophy

On people who live on in our dreams

I dreamt that the late British American public intellectual Christopher Hitchens was walking next to me. He was bald, like in the last months of his life when he underwent chemotherapy, but appeared in excellent health and was obviously not aware of his impending death. The image was so vivid that I could see the ...

29 April, 2017

death, dreaming, friendship, Hitchens, humanism, imagination, life

Essays, The good life

Hitch

Christopher Hitchens died four years ago today. Of course, he went far too early. We need "contrarian" intellectuals like him more than ever, to put into words what we would call the enlightened position on the Issue, because there really is only one Issue left. Call it the refugee crisis, call it climate change, call ...

15 December, 2015

friendship, Hitch-22, Hitchens, James Fenton, Martin Amis, Nietzsche, Salman Rushdie

The good life