Christopher Hitchens
Articles by Christopher Hitchens
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Europe
Hitchens archive: The state of Spain
- 05 January 2012
Hitchens reports from Madrid in 1976, following the death of Franco.
Europe
Hitchens archive: The Greek Lesson
- 05 January 2012
After the junta fell, a portrait of a country in turmoil as hopes for democracy were crushed
Society
Hitchens archive: Sir David's Flying Wedge
- 05 January 2012
Following the death of Blair Peach in 1979, Hitchens writes about the policing of protests.
Africa
Hitchens archive: Colonel Ghadaffi's Libya
- 05 January 2012
In this 1976 article, Hitchens reflects on a dictator on the ascendant.
Newspapers
Hitchens archive: The Daily Mail does it again
- 05 January 2012
In this article from 2 February 1979, Hitchens excoriates the Daily Mail and the right-wing press in general for their lack of "honest journalism" in covering strikes. He had recently returned to the NS after two years as a foreign correspondent on the Daily Express.
Religion
Please, let’s not do God
- 02 April 2009
- 1 comment
The Vanity Fair columnist and author of God is not great on Tony Blair's new faith foundation
Society
Michael Foot v the New Statesman
- 17 July 2008
- 2 comments
In 1978 Bruce Page, the editor of the New Statesman, reprinted extracts from a stirring speech made by Michael Foot as a Labour rebel in 1968. Foot's criticisms contrasted starkly with his position a decade later - as a leading member of the Labour government - on its economic policy. Foot sent a vituperative letter in his own defence, printed the following week. It ended with a flick of contempt at a staff journalist, Christopher Hitchens, who responded similarly.
Books
Just give peace a chance?
- 15 May 2008
- 16 comments
The Second World War was wrong and avoidable, argues Nicholson Baker, and through the criminal belligerence of Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt brought catastrophe and death to tens of millions
Society
Iraq Flexes Arab Muscle
- 05 July 2007
- 9 comments
In 1976 Christopher Hitchens saw Saddam as an up-and-coming secular socialist who would transform Iraq into a progressive model for the rest of the Middle East
Life & Society
Am I a dwarf or a horseman?
- 28 June 2007
- 7 comments
It's an honour to be mentioned in the same breath as Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett and Sam Harris. We could become known as the Four Horsemen of the Counter-Apocalypse
