Subject:

Christopher Hitchens

  • Voice Choices

    April 25, 2012

    BUILDING BRIDGES

    The PEN Fest invites some new friends

  • Blogs

    January 1, 2012

    We Predict the Top 10 Stories of 2012

    After compiling our list of the most-read Village Voice stories of 2011, we got to thinking about what the new year will bring. While it's impossible to accurately foresee the coming news cycle, we've used complex algorithms and web-based analytics to predict ten stories that will rock the world thi ... More >>

  • Film

    December 28, 2011

    Truth Matters: On Christopher Hitchens, Movie Critic

    After compiling our list of the most-read Village Voice stories of 2011, we got to thinking about what the new year will bring. While it's impossible to accurately foresee the coming news cycle, we've used complex algorithms and web-based analytics to predict ten stories that will rock the world thi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 25, 2011

    Quiz: Are You a Soldier in the War on Christmas?

    ​If you are reading this, it means you have withstood the first assault of the War on Christmas. We have taken the words of various talk show hosts and politicians to heart and are currently in our Christmas bunker, waiting for the unrelenting attacks from the sinister pleasantry, "Happy Holid ... More >>

  • News

    December 21, 2011

    Christopher Hitchens's Contradictory Legacy

    Crusades, holy men, and devils

  • Blogs

    December 21, 2011

    This Week in the Voice: The Year in Film, 10 Best Live Shows

    ​This week in the Voice, out today: our new Year in Film poll along with criticism from J. Hoberman, Karina Longworth, and others. Winner of Best Film: The Tree of Life. Winner of Worst Film: I Melt With You. Maura Johnston rates the 10 best live shows she saw this year, including Beyoncé, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 16, 2011

    Christopher Hitchens is Dead. Long Live Hitch.

    ​Less than an hour ago NPR reported that Christopher Hitchens had finally succumbed to his battle with cancer. Tomorrow, at a decent hour, I will search through the Voice archives for some of his pieces. At one point he wrote the Press Clips column, but whether it was before or after Alexand ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 16, 2011

    #GodIsNotGreat Trending on Twitter, But Only in Certain Cities

    ​Following the announcement of Christopher Hitchens' death at the age of 62 very early this morning, Twitter has been awash with thoughts about the man. #ChristopherHitchens is trending throughout the U.S., though not, currently, worldwide [update: now it is], and not in the U.K. But what abou ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 10, 2011

    Mel Gibson's Judah Maccabee Movie: High on Action, Low on Circumcisions

    ​The news that Mel Gibson is planning to make a Judah Maccabee biopic has caused quite a stir. While Judah Maccabee is one of the greatest heroes in the history of Judaism for leading the revolt against the Seleucid Empire, Mel Gibson loves getting drunk and ranting about how "The Jews are res ... More >>

  • Film

    May 11, 2011

    Bridesmaids Gets Screwed

    ​The news that Mel Gibson is planning to make a Judah Maccabee biopic has caused quite a stir. While Judah Maccabee is one of the greatest heroes in the history of Judaism for leading the revolt against the Seleucid Empire, Mel Gibson loves getting drunk and ranting about how "The Jews are res ... More >>

  • Film

    January 5, 2011

    Phil Ochs, Folkie, Back Home in the Village

    ​The news that Mel Gibson is planning to make a Judah Maccabee biopic has caused quite a stir. While Judah Maccabee is one of the greatest heroes in the history of Judaism for leading the revolt against the Seleucid Empire, Mel Gibson loves getting drunk and ranting about how "The Jews are res ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 20, 2010

    Everybody Pray for Christopher Hitchens Day: To Pray or Not to Pray?

    ​It's probably not on your Google calendar, but today is Everybody Pray for Christopher Hitchens Day -- Christopher Hitchens, the atheist, who wrote God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything; Christopher Hitchens, the man with esophageal cancer, the disease that killed his father. Who ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 3, 2010

    Apple Apps Turn Religious: If Man is Five, Then the iPhone is Six and God is Seven

    ​America is under attack. It's "a new strain of strident atheism" and it's deadly. To the rescue? iPhone applications, according to the New York Times. And if you're on the other side of the war, there's tools for you, too -- alternative applications "arming nonbelievers for battle." It's like ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 17, 2009

    Outrage Du Jour: Sarah Palin in Shorts

    ​Newsweek has on its cover a picture of Sarah Palin in shorts from her Runners' World shoot, which Sarah Palin herself has denounced as "sexist." For a moment we thought this was a Carrie Prejean thing, but apparently Palin knew Runners World would publish photos of her in shorts, and she obje ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 3, 2009

    Week in Review: Boom! Woah, What Was That? You Transcend.

    In the week we got ourselves a whole new look, we celebrated by staring David Lynch and Kate Moss directly in their awesome, newly expansive faces. This was a bookish week at SOTC: Brian Evenson soundtracked his novel, Last Days, Jonathan Lethem reintroduced L.J. Davis and his walls of mucus in P ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 30, 2009

    Christopher Hitchens Calls Mos Def "Mr. Definitely" on Bill Maher

    One of the things most entertaining slash most infuriating about rappers straying, whether intentionally or otherwise, onto political talk shows is the inability of their hosts and fellow guests to call them by their given names. Hence a smirking Dennis Miller calling Young Jeezy both "Emphysema" ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 23, 2008

    New Free Michael Moore Film: Is This the Kerryization of Obama?

    One of the things most entertaining slash most infuriating about rappers straying, whether intentionally or otherwise, onto political talk shows is the inability of their hosts and fellow guests to call them by their given names. Hence a smirking Dennis Miller calling Young Jeezy both "Emphysema" ... More >>

  • News

    March 18, 2008

    Hitchens on Spitzer's Lust

    Why else do men run for higher office?

  • Art

    January 3, 2006

    Women and Badness

    Phyllis Chesler: prominent second-wave feminist—and neocon

  • Specials

    March 8, 2005

    Letters

    Phyllis Chesler: prominent second-wave feminist—and neocon

  • Books

    January 25, 2005

    The Hitch

    Radical or neocon? Same old or sold out? Christopher Hitchens has things both ways.

  • Screens

    December 14, 2004

    Bad Chef, Good Chef

    Would you like a little testosterone with that soufflé (or how about a knuckle sandwich)?

  • Books

    June 29, 2004

    Up in Smoke: What John Cougar Mellencamp Wanted to Say

    Would you like a little testosterone with that soufflé (or how about a knuckle sandwich)?

  • News

    June 22, 2004

    Mauling Michael Moore

    The attack on Fahrenheit 9/11: Fox lays back while ABC and NBC pile on

  • News

    May 4, 2004

    Torturegate

    The first press-generated scandal since that two-bit burglary at the Watergate

  • Books

    May 27, 2003

    The West Wingman

    Clinton Aide Sidney Blumenthal Testifies Again

  • News

    December 31, 2002

    Hooked on a Feeling

    The 'Times' Records a Year of Bitterness

  • News

    October 29, 2002

    Neohawks

    Leftists Who Love the War Too Much

  • Film

    June 11, 2002

    Material Witnesses

    Leftists Who Love the War Too Much

  • Theater

    November 6, 2001

    A Doom of One’s Own

    Leftists Who Love the War Too Much

  • Specials

    November 6, 2001

    Letters

    Leftists Who Love the War Too Much

  • Books

    October 30, 2001

    The Belligerati

    Leftists Who Love the War Too Much

  • News

    August 14, 2001

    Manhattan’s Milosevic

    How You Can Do What the Government Won’t: Arrest Henry Kissinger

  • Books

    May 29, 2001

    Kissinger of Death

    How You Can Do What the Government Won’t: Arrest Henry Kissinger

  • News

    May 15, 2001

    Hitchens Goes Global

    Covering the Land of the Infidel

  • NYC Life

    March 13, 2001

    Hello, Bobo!

    Hitchens, Marxists, and SUVs

  • NYC Life

    February 27, 2001

    Reading Rainbow

    The Season's Topics Cover the Spectrum

  • NYC Life

    February 13, 2001

    The Mind Kings

    Wanted: Public Intellectuals

  • News

    October 24, 2000

    Here's Your Piece of the Pie

    Salon Reaches Out to Freelancers

  • News

    June 27, 2000

    Book Samaritans

    Housing Works a Hit With Lit Crowd

  • News

    December 14, 1999

    Sheehy’s Choice

    New Bio of Hillary Clinton Bends the Facts

  • Music

    September 14, 1999

    Wrigley's in the Trashcan

    James Miller Tries to Control What He No Longer Loves

  • Columns

    May 25, 1999

    NY Mirror

    As to the Backstreet Boys’ sexuality, I haven’t come to any conclusions except that they’re hot in the following order: Kevin, Nick, Brian, A.J., Howie.

  • Books

    May 4, 1999

    Trading Places

    As to the Backstreet Boys’ sexuality, I haven’t come to any conclusions except that they’re hot in the following order: Kevin, Nick, Brian, A.J., Howie.

  • Specials

    March 30, 1999

    Letters

    As to the Backstreet Boys’ sexuality, I haven’t come to any conclusions except that they’re hot in the following order: Kevin, Nick, Brian, A.J., Howie.

  • News

    March 16, 1999

    Just Our Bill?

    The Left Reconsiders Its Relationship to Clinton and Comes Out Swinging— Especially at Christopher Hitchens

  • News

    March 2, 1999

    Jill of All Trades

    The Left Reconsiders Its Relationship to Clinton and Comes Out Swinging— Especially at Christopher Hitchens

  • Specials

    February 9, 1999

    Letters

    The Left Reconsiders Its Relationship to Clinton and Comes Out Swinging— Especially at Christopher Hitchens

  • News

    January 12, 1999

    Wishful Reporting

    The Left Reconsiders Its Relationship to Clinton and Comes Out Swinging— Especially at Christopher Hitchens

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