In a speech from 2009, he name-dropped his favorite drink in his inimitable way: In an excerpt from his memoir, Hitch-22, he further elaborated on his drinking habits: I work at home, where there is indeed a bar-room, and can suit myself. But I don’t. At about half past midday, a decent slug of Mr. Walker’s amber restorative, cut … Continue reading What Hitch Would Be Drinking Tonight
My entire 2006 conversation with Hitch is now available for subscribers. Because the quality of the audio is not-so-great, we’ve provided a full transcript as well – it can be downloaded and read as an e-book by clicking here. The gist: A while back I thought it would be a cool idea to do some post-prandial … Continue reading Deep Dish: Sully And Hitch After Dark
A late-night conversation between Andrew Sullivan and Christopher Hitchens, recorded in 2006. A while back I thought it would be a cool idea to do some post-prandial chats with some of my favorite people. It occurred to me that the best conversations I ever heard in Washington never happened on television or radio. They were … Continue reading Sully And Hitch After Dark
Rubén Martínez reviews Richard Rodriguez’s new book Darling: A Spiritual Autobiography and studies its place in the author’s work on race, religion and assimilation in America: Darling offers variations on all these themes, at the same time that it takes a leap onto the post-9/11 global stage. It is also a book about the desert. To … Continue reading An Antidote To Hitch
“They burned the children alive,” – a witness to yesterday’s horrifying Islamist attack on a Nigerian school, killing up to 30 students, because Western education is “sacrilegious”. But to talk of Islamist terrorism is apparently Islamophobic. Yes, this group is extreme, even by Islamist standards. But its motivation is clear: to do God’s will, by … Continue reading Hitch-Bait
One argument that many people of faith cling to these days is that not all religion is inherently violent or intolerant; non-fundamentalist religion can coexist with modernity, because it can acknowledge the role of doubt and conscience in any religious calling. And yet, religion only fitfully takes this form, and seems inherently prone to controlling … Continue reading Hitch-Bait
On the 55th anniversary of Vertigo, Tom McCormack recalls the novel equipment used to create the film’s title sequence, an “obsolete military computer called the M5 gun director” from WWII: [Computer animation pioneer John Whitney] was hired to complete the seemingly impossible task of turning [Saul] Bass’s complicated designs for Vertigo into moving pictures. A … Continue reading Hitchcock’s Artillery
After last week, back to the late night conversation – and an eerily familiar discussion: H: The idea of spreading, deliberately, terrible violence, toxic… A: Why do you think this hasn’t happened? I mean, obviously it hasn’t happened because they can’t have gotten the serious weaponry, the WmDs, right? Otherwise it would’ve happened. H: I … Continue reading Sully And Hitch: When Fundamentalists Plant Bombs
The late night conversation continues. For a recap, the whole thing is here. I should let readers know that I’d proposed to Hitch that we discuss Iraq as well as religion, but for reasons I leave to you to snicker about, we kept putting off that question later into the night. In the last installment, … Continue reading Sully And Hitch: “Why Should I Deserve Forgiveness?”
A reader writes: I’ve enthusiastically followed your conversations about religion with Christopher Hitchens. But this latest part of the conversation provoked me like none of the others. Nothing Hitchens said bothered me, a practicing, but non-fundamentalist Christian, in the least. His objections seem aimed at a faith that bore no resemblance to mine. Even more, … Continue reading Hitch And Sully: A Christian Dissent
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