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This Week in Magazines: Fear and Shopping

James Warren | Posted 03.04.2009 | Media

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Magazines are awash with our fear- and debt-ridden mess, with lots of profiles of key players -- and then there's ShopSmart, a wonderful potpourri of smart consumerism.

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Christopher Hitchens Talks Torture, Kisses Andrew Sullivan At Inauguration Party

New York Magazine | Russell Berman | Posted 02.19.2009 | Media

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Inside, Hitchens opined on whether the Obama administration should answers calls from the left to prosecute Bush administration officials for illegal ...

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Christopher Hitchens Debates Bill O'Reilly Over Torture (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Nicholas Graham | Posted 02.12.2009 | Media

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Christopher Hitchens was a guest on the O'Reilly Factor tonight to debate O'Reilly on the necessity and effectiveness of torture. To preface the deba...

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Jason Linkins

Matthews, Hitchens Lead Stirring Fight Against Pro-Torture Views Of Michael Smerconish

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 01.17.2009 | Media

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Cheers to MSNBC's Chris Matthews and Vanity Fair's Christopher Hitchens, for their resolute opposition to Michael Smerconish's cockamamie embrace of i...

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The Could've-Been Best Of 2008

Miles Klee | Posted 01.17.2009 | Home

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Miles Klee

Each year, best-of lists pass over countless hypotheticals in favor of people, events and things that actually happened. Which is so uncool and maybe ...

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Global Warming Deniers: The New 9/11 Truthers

Sahil Kapur | Posted 01.16.2009 | Green

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Sahil Kapur

Both groups are convinced they possess a uniquely superior grasp of reality. Facts and evidence are muffled by their messianic quest to inform society of its delusions and inadequacies.

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The Future of Secularism in American Politics

Bruce Ledewitz | Posted 01.08.2009 | Politics

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Bruce Ledewitz

The political implications of any movement away from the us-them divide between religion and secularism would be profound.

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Christopher Hitchens Battles Joan Walsh Over Obama's Foreign Policy Team On Hardball (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Posted 01.01.2009 | Media

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President-elect Barack Obama announced his national security team today, and the confirmation of Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State, and Eric Holde...

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Mountain of Snakes

Sean Penn | Posted 12.31.2008 | Politics

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Sean Penn

I'm not a socialist. Or at least not entirely so. As an American, I've got a little Al Capone in me. I like the idea of individual achievement -- just not against a background of hopeless oppression.

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Sorting Out Hillary's Secretary of State Decision

Kathleen Reardon | Posted 12.22.2008 | Politics

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Kathleen Reardon

It's time for the New York senator to take a step forward -- to use her experience for the benefit of the country.

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Christopher Hitchens Calls Hillary Clinton As Secretary Of State A "Ludicrous Embarrassment"

Huffington Post | Posted 12.18.2008 | Media

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Christopher Hitchens appeared on "Hardball" Monday night and voiced his strong opposition to Hillary Clinton being named Secretary of State. Appeari...

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Arianna on BBC Newsnight to Discuss Barack Obama's Win

Huff TV | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics

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Arianna appeared on BBC Newsnight on Wednesday, where she discussed the results of the presidential election with Christopher Hitchens and Thomas Friedman.

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Christopher Hitchens: "Sheer Delinquence Of The McCain Campaign In The Closing Days Has Been Something To Pity"

via Vanity Fair | Posted 12.05.2008 | Politics

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Christopher Hitchens writes at Vanity Fair: You can take it light or you can take it heavy, but the sheer deliquescence of the McCain campaign in the...

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Christopher Hitchens: McCain "Losing Capacity, He's Just Not Quite The Man He Was"

Huffington Post | Nicholas Graham | Posted 11.20.2008 | Media

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Christopher Hitchens defended his endorsement of Obama on The O'Reilly Factor on Friday. Subbing in for O'Reilly was Laura Ingraham, and the exchange...

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Christopher Hitchens' Obama Endorsement

Slate | Christopher Hitchens | Posted 11.13.2008 | Media

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I used to nod wisely when people said: "Let's discuss issues rather than personalities." It seemed so obvious that in politics an issue was an issue a...

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Christopher Hitchens' Economic Assessment: United States Is A "Banana Republic"

Vanity Fair | Christopher Hitchens | Posted 11.09.2008 | Business

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But still, the chief principle of banana-ism is that of kleptocracy, whereby those in positions of influence use their time in office to maximize thei...

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Why Obama is (So Far) No Liberal Reagan

Shaun Jacob Halper | Posted 10.25.2008 | Politics

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Shaun Jacob Halper

Obama will probably win this election, but only by the skin of his teeth. Let's face it: Obama is not the transformational candidate we liberals had hoped for.

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Freedom of Speech, Satire, and Revisionist History...

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 07.26.2008 | Media

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Marcia G. Yerman

Walking home on the Upper East Side on Wednesday night, I saw a cluster of ten policemen and two patrol cars. It seemed quite unusual for a quiet block. "What's going on?" I asked.

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Jason Linkins

Vanity Fair's Christopher Hitchens Undergoes Waterboarding

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.10.2008 | Media

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Just in case the revelation that American torturers took their cues from that model of moral clarity that was the Chinese Communist regime hasn't full...

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Sam Stein

Hitchens: "I Might Orgasm In My Trousers" Over Fall Of Bill Clinton

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 06.19.2008 | Politics

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The famously acid-tongued and brutally insightful Christopher Hitchens proclaimed himself near "orgasm" on Wednesday over the much maligned conduct an...

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Christopher Hitchens Explains His Snoring Problem

Mens Vogue | Christopher Hitchens | Posted 04.25.2008 | Media

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Could there be anything more delightful than Carmel and the Monterey Peninsula at Thanksgiving? My cousins by marriage have a new place there, within ...

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Hitchens Goes Off On Clintons, Calls Bill Hill's "Moral Tutor, The Man Who Taught Her How To Lie"

Huffington Post | Posted 04.10.2008 | Media

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Christopher Hitchens discussed Hillary Clinton's Bosnia lie yesterday on Fox News' "Studio B with Shepard Smith" and at the end of the segment he went...

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Vanity Fair Starts New Feature "Hitch Bitch" To Field Hitchens Hate Mail

Huffington Post | Dipayan Gupta | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

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Portfolio.com's Jeff Bercovici writes today about 'Hitch Bitch,' Vanity Fair's new feature that gives readers the chance to take on the magazine's con...

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Christopher Hitchens Bo-Teaches Rabbi Shmuley How It's Done

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

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On Wednesday night, the 92nd Street Y took a leap of faith and hosted a debate between avowed atheist and God-hater Christopher Hitchens and Kosher Sex author Rabbi Shmuley Boteach.

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Christopher Hitchens: No Surprise The Clintons Are Playing The Race Card

Slate.com | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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How can one equal Bill Clinton for thuggery and opportunism when it comes to the so-called "race card"? And where does one even start with the breatht...

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