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Archive of posts published in the tag: Christopher Hitchens

Capricious Law

Kevin Williamson writes The Front Man in The National Review, 8/5/2013 Excerpts: Congress’s supine ceding of its powers, and the Obama administration’s usurpation of both legal and extralegal powers, is worrisome. But what is particularly disturbing is the quiet, polite, workaday manner

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The Need for Intellectual Heat

A map of the world that does not include Utopia, said Oscar Wilde, is not worth glancing at. A noble sentiment, and a good thrust at the Gradgrinds and utilitarians.  Bear in mind that Utopia itself was a tyranny and

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Forming Opinion

Many are the works of genius that would have been incinerated if a roll of opinion had been called. I am sure you have had the experience of making up your own mind and then discovering, on the evening news

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The Origin of the Intellectual

The trial of Alfred Dreyfus in France in 1895 was a pivotal event.  Dreyfus was a Jewish captain in the French military, accused of selling military secrets to the Germans. He was tried and convicted. Rumors that he had been

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The Mother of All Bigotries

Besides being Jewish, anti-Anti-Semitism fascinates me because it is a hatred like no other. It seems to morph and adapt to every political and cultural movement since Moses left Egypt. Christopher Hitchens adds his thoughts on the topic in the

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