Required Reading
- What’s Your Problem with Joe Biden?
- Dirty Rubles: An Introduction to Trump/Russia (My New Book)
- Youth for the President
- A Summary of the Conspiracy Against the United States
- Trump: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (Part 3)
- Postcards from the Resistance, Vol. 8: Mother of All
- From Lance Armstrong to Trump: The Rise & Fall of the Deified Narcissist
- Reading Malcolm X in Texas
- Playing the Donald Trump Game
- President Rapist: Women Under Trump
- An Open Letter to My Fellow Liberals
- The Democrats Can’t Win If They Won’t Fight
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Tag Archives: Christopher Hitchens
Sorry, Charlie
Everyone, it seems, opposes censorship until it’s their sacred cow being smacked around; anyone can endorse artists’ rights until it’s their ass in the crosshairs. Free speech is—and must be—an all-or-nothing proposition. Continue reading
Posted in Current Events
Tagged America, Censorship, Charlie Hebdo, Christopher Hitchens, Conservative, East, Free Speech, Liberal, Paris, religion, Salman Rushdie, Sean Murphy, West
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Sex (In Fiction)
Writing about sex is like engaging in sex: it’s hard. Except when it’s not hard enough. Continue reading
Posted in Literature, Sex
Tagged Bad Sex in FIction Award, Ben Okri, Bukowski, Chaucer, Christopher Hitchens, David Guterson, Hemingway, Jackie Treehorn, John Updike, Laura Miller, Literary Review, Liz Taylor, philip roth, Richard Burton, Sean Murphy, Shakespeare, The Miller's Tale, Tom Wolfe
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Basterds Unchained: The Revenge of Artistic License
A devoted film-goer takes on the vitriol aimed at Tarantino’s most recent additions to American cinema, and mulls over the legitimacy of revenge fantasies. Continue reading
Posted in Cinema, Popular Culture
Tagged African-American, Anti-Semitism, Artistic License, Black, Christopher Hitchens, Conservative, Django Unchained, Eli Roth, Holocaust, Inglorious Basterds, Ishmael Reed, Jeffrey Goldberg, Jewish, Kosher Porn, Liberal, Nazis, Quentin Tarantino, racism, Revenge Fantasy, Roxane Gay, slavery, Spike Lee
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Raw Book Reviews by the Restlessly Deceased: Christopher Hitchens on Mitch Albom
This week, Christopher Hitchens applies a full Mother Theresa to Mitch Albom’s “The Five People You Meet in Heaven.” Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews by the Restlessly Deceased
Tagged afterlife, atheism, book reviews, books, Christopher Hitchens, death, God, Mitch Albom
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