Letters to a Young Contrarian

Death hath wrought a pernicious dent in the erudite and intellectual world; Hitchens will not be one to be soon forgotten, nor ever replaced (but emulated, definitely). Let me stop you before you roll your eyes. Yes, I am providing my belated, unasked-for, and pedantic tribute to the late Hitch, but......more

Herein, Hitchens composes a series of 'letters' to those of us who would seek his advice and counsel. Inspired by his students in New York, and by hundreds of others on campuses where he spoke and lectured, Letters to a Young Contrarian reads like a commencement address to a graduating class at Berk......more

This marks my mostly-successful re-entry into the Hitch's orbit. Never a mooning Fanboi, I acknowledged a certain erratic genius in his collection of essays Unacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public Sphere, thought that Why Orwell Matters certainly mattered, but found God Is Not Great: How R......more

Through the years reading Christopher Hitchens has been hit or miss for me. Mortality was amazing, but many other works basically unaccessible to me perhaps because they are all too cerebral and the subjects fail to interest me. I remember Hitchens on a Bill Maher show on HBO where he was a guest an......more