Cheers to MSNBC's Chris Matthews and Vanity Fair's Christopher Hitchens, for their resolute opposition to Michael Smerconish's cockamamie embrace of i...
Sahil Kapur | Posted 12.16.2008 | Green
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.
Bruce Ledewitz | Posted 12.08.2008 | Politics
The political implications of any movement away from the us-them divide between religion and secularism would be profound.
Huffington Post | Posted 12.01.2008 | Media
President-elect Barack Obama announced his national security team today, and the confirmation of Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State, and Eric Holde...
Sean Penn | Posted 11.30.2008 | Politics
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.
Sean Penn | Posted 11.30.2008 | Politics
The following is Part II of Sean Penn's piece, Mountain of Snakes (Read Part I here) HOLA FERNANDO, COMO ESTA? I wanted to cut through the crap. I h...
Kathleen Reardon | Posted 11.21.2008 | Politics
It's time for the New York senator to take a step forward -- to use her experience for the benefit of the country.
Huffington Post | Posted 11.17.2008 | Media
Christopher Hitchens appeared on "Hardball" Monday night and voiced his strong opposition to Hillary Clinton being named Secretary of State. Appeari...
Huff TV | Posted 11.05.2008 | Politics
Arianna appeared on BBC Newsnight on Wednesday, where she discussed the results of the presidential election with Christopher Hitchens and Thomas Friedman.
via Vanity Fair | Posted 11.04.2008 | Politics
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...
Huffington Post | Nicholas Graham | Posted 10.20.2008 | Media
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...
Slate | Christopher Hitchens | Posted 10.13.2008 | Media
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...
Vanity Fair | Christopher Hitchens | Posted 10.09.2008 | Business
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...
Shaun Jacob Halper | Posted 09.24.2008 | Politics
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.
Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 07.18.2008 | Media
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.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.02.2008 | Media
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...
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 06.19.2008 | Politics
The oil conglomerates are today back in Iraq with the help of 140,000 American soldiers and $750 billion from the American taxpayer. But the Iraq war had nothing to do with oil, right?
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 06.11.2008 | Politics
The famously acid-tongued and brutally insightful Christopher Hitchens proclaimed himself near "orgasm" on Wednesday over the much maligned conduct an...
Michael Conniff | Posted 04.19.2008 | Politics
Fuzzy-headed liberals make lousy conservatives who are not really conservative at all -- according to the all-or-nothing conservatism that requires slavish devotion to the cause right down the line.
Mens Vogue | Christopher Hitchens | Posted 04.17.2008 | Media
Could there be anything more delightful than Carmel and the Monterey Peninsula at Thanksgiving? My cousins by marriage have a new place there, within ...
Dennis Perrin | Posted 04.10.2008 | Media
Hitchens, I always thought the whole Just War bit was largely a performance, however sordid and unsightly. I no longer buy into that theory.
Huffington Post | Posted 04.02.2008 | Media
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...
Sam Harris | Posted 03.21.2008 | Politics
Like every candidate, Obama must appeal to millions of voters who believe that without religion, most of us would spend our days raping and killing our neighbors and stealing their pornography.
Jordan Michael Smith | Posted 03.20.2008 | Home
There is no other living writer on Earth that attracts the strange attention -- from the press and from allegedly celebrity-hating intellectuals -- that Hitchens does.
Katie Halper | Posted 03.05.2008 | Media
Dear Gawker, I want to thank you for having the testosterone-drenched you-know-whats to say what nobody else, besides Christopher Hitchens and lots of men, will say: women comics suck!
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The Internet is awash with rumors over the cause of the tragic death of actor John Travolta's...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 12.17.2008 | Media