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Christopher Hitchens - Liberty is worth fighting for
The Long war. Liberty vs. Tyranny and Theocracy.
“The war against superstition and the totalitarian mentality is an endless war” - Christopher Hitchens
“It was sometimes feebly argued, as the political and military war against this enemy ran into difficulties, that it was 'a war without end.' I never saw the point of this plaintive objection. The war against superstition and the totalitarian mentality is an endless war. In protean forms, it is fought and refought in every country and every generation. In bin Ladenism we confront again the awful combination of the highly authoritarian personality with the chaotically nihilist and anarchic one. Temporary victories can be registered against this, but not permanent ones. As Bertold Brecht's character says over the corpse of the terrible Arturo Ui, the bitch that bore him is always in heat. But it is in this struggle that we develop the muscles and sinews that enable us to defend civilization, and the moral courage to name it as something worth fighting for.”
― Christopher Hitchens, The Enemy
“It can certainly be misleading to take the attributes of a movement, or the anxieties and contradictions of a moment, and to personalize or 'objectify' them in the figure of one individual. Yet ordinary discourse would be unfeasible without the use of portmanteau terms-like 'Stalinism,' say-just as the most scrupulous insistence on historical forces will often have to concede to the sheer personality of a Napoleon or a Hitler. I thought then, and I think now, that Osama bin Laden was a near-flawless personification of the mentality of a real force: the force of Islamic jihad. And I also thought, and think now, that this force absolutely deserves to be called evil, and that the recent decapitation of its most notorious demagogue and organizer is to be welcomed without reserve. Osama bin Laden's writings and actions constitute a direct negation of human liberty, and vent an undisguised hatred and contempt for life itself.”
― Christopher Hitchens, The Enemy
Christopher Hitchens, Kurdistan, Islamic State, ISIS, Freedom, Free Speech, Tyrants, Islam Democracy, Syria
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Christopher Hitchens on the Indifference of Heaven
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Let's say that the consensus is that our species, being the higher primates, Homo Sapiens, has been on the planet for at least 100,000 years, maybe more. Francis Collins says maybe 100,000. Richard Dawkins thinks maybe a quarter-of-a-million. I'll take 100,000. In order to be a Christian, you have to believe that for 98,000 years, our species suffered and died, most of its children dying in chi...
Christopher Hitchens on Fascism, Ba'athism, Assad
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www.hrw.org/news/2012/07/03/syria-torture-centers-revealed Every time I see the droopy, callow face of Bashar al-Assad - a man in possession of those two awkwardly coexisting qualities identified by Hanna Arendt, utter banality and a fantastic capacity for evil - I think of Christopher Hitchens’s spot-on description of the Syrian tyrant, which he deployed for both Assad and former Argentina dic...
Christopher Hitchens - Man Made God
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Religion is man-made. Even the men who made it cannot agree on what their prophets or redeemers or gurus actually said or did. Religion comes from the period of human prehistory where nobody-not even the mighty Democritus who concluded that all matter was made from atoms-had the smallest idea what was going on. It comes from the bawling and fearful infancy of our species, and is a babyish attem...
Christopher Hitchens - Remember the Love Bit
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The Foundation Beyond Belief has set up a donation page for the Syrian American Medical Society Foundation to benefit the region Barakat was trying to help. www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2015/02/11/if-youre-looking-for-a-positive-way-to-respond-to-the-chapel-hill-shootings-heres-one-way-to-help/ AronRa video On behalf of Deah, Yusor, and Razan: ua-cam.com/video/TOezEFJfqvs/v-deo.html E ...
Christopher Hitchens and Andrew Sullivan with Tim Russert
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Christopher Hitchens and Andrew Sullivan with Tim Russert
Christopher Hitchens on Bill Clinton - "No One Left To Lie To"
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Christopher Hitchens on Bill Clinton
Christopher Hitchens vs. Ed Meese
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Christopher Hitchens vs. Ed Meese
Christopher Hitchens vs. Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL)
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Christopher Hitchens vs. Islamic State The essential point that a religiously neutral state is the chief guarantee of religious pluralism is the one that some of today's would-be theocrats are determined to miss. Liberty, Theocracy, Tyranny, Freedom, Extremism, Takfirism, Jihadism, Islam, Christopher Hitchens, Islam debate, ISIS, Islamic extremism, radical religion, paris attacks, Syria .the la...
Christopher Hitchens - The Philosopher's Song
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“Alcohol makes other people less tedious, and food less bland, and can help provide what the Greeks called entheos, or the slight buzz of inspiration when reading or writing. The only worthwhile miracle in the New Testament-the transmutation of water into wine during the wedding at Cana-is a tribute to the persistence of Hellenism in an otherwise austere Judaea. The same applies to the seder at...
Christopher Hitchens - All of Life is a Wager
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Christopher Hitchens - All of Life is a Wager (CSPAN) "Christopher Eric Hitchens (April 13, 1949 December 15, 2011) was an English-born American author, journalist and literary critic. He was a contributor to Vanity Fair, The Atlantic, World Affairs, The Nation, Slate, Free Inquiry and a variety of other media outlets. Hitchens was also a political observer, whose best-selling books - the most ...
Christopher Hitchens - Letters to a Young Contrarian
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Christopher Hitchens CSPAN 2001 "I have been called arrogant myself in my time, and hope to earn the title again, but to claim that I am privy to the secrets of the universe and its creator - that's beyond my conceit. I therefore have no choice but to find something suspect even in the humblest believer. Even the most humane and compassionate of the monotheisms and polytheisms are complicit in ...
Christopher Hitchens - Politics and Prose Bookstore
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Christopher Hitchens 2007 Politics and Prose
Christopher Hitchens debate with Timothy Jackson
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www.huffingtonpost.com/victor-stenger/how-to-debate-religion_b_4876997.html "Christopher Eric Hitchens (April 13, 1949 December 15, 2011) was an English-born American author, journalist and literary critic. He was a contributor to Vanity Fair, The Atlantic, World Affairs, The Nation, Slate, Free Inquiry and a variety of other media outlets. Hitchens was also a political observer, whose best-sel...
Christopher Hitchens - A Conversation (2010)
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"Christopher Eric Hitchens (April 13, 1949 December 15, 2011) was an English-born American author, journalist and literary critic. He was a contributor to Vanity Fair, The Atlantic, World Affairs, The Nation, Slate, Free Inquiry and a variety of other media outlets. Hitchens was also a political observer, whose best-selling books - the most famous being god Is Not Great - made him a staple of t...
Christopher Hitchens debate with Boteach
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Christopher Hitchens debate with Boteach
Christopher Hitchens on America's role in the World (2005)
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Christopher Hitchens on America's role in the World (2005)
Christopher Hitchens - Anderson Cooper Interview
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Christopher Hitchens - Anderson Cooper Interview
Christopher Hitchens - Why Orwell Matters (2005)
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Christopher Hitchens - Why Orwell Matters (2005)
Christopher Hitchens London Hay Festival 2007
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Christopher Hitchens London Hay Festival 2007
Christopher Hitchens - A Matter of Principle
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Christopher Hitchens - A Matter of Principle
Christopher Hitchens - Hitch Hike Documentary
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Christopher Hitchens - Hitch Hike Documentary
Christopher Hitchens and William F. Buckley Jr (Firing Line)
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Christopher Hitchens and William F. Buckley Jr (Firing Line)
Christopher Hitchens and William F. Buckley Jr interview
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Christopher Hitchens and William F. Buckley Jr interview
Christopher Hitchens - In Depth
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Christopher Hitchens - In Depth
Christopher Hitchens - Freedom of Expression
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Christopher Hitchens - Freedom of Expression
Christopher Hitchens - Free Speech
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Christopher Hitchens - Free Speech
Christopher Hitchens -Books and Ideas
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Christopher Hitchens -Books and Ideas
Christopher Hitchens - H.L. Mencken
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Christopher Hitchens - H.L. Mencken
Christopher Hitchens on News, Politics, Religion (1996)
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Christopher Hitchens on News, Politics, Religion (1996)

КОМЕНТАРІ

  • @MattSingh1
    @MattSingh1 3 години тому

    *Almost 30 years later, I wonder what became of Jason Connor?*

  • @MyWitsEnd.
    @MyWitsEnd. 2 дні тому

    2:01:45 this person lives in the same small city as me. Need to show family

  • @rekunta
    @rekunta 2 дні тому

    Considering Hitchens opinion of the Clintons, I wonder if he’d be a Trump supporter.

  • @willmpet
    @willmpet 3 дні тому

    Pushovers for England!

  • @seanmcmahon9217
    @seanmcmahon9217 3 дні тому

    7:56. Sadly, he called it. Shame he didn’t take his own advice.

  • @prplfleur
    @prplfleur 6 днів тому

    2:46:23 That's fucking prescient, Hitchens lived a little bit longer than 1 year after this interview, but Kissinger did make it to 100 years old before he died. What a shame on both counts

  • @SleepyPenguin-8og
    @SleepyPenguin-8og 7 днів тому

    Had a pleasant day at work lady coworker said thank u kindly sir and asked if my tattoos hurt

  • @SleepyPenguin-8og
    @SleepyPenguin-8og 7 днів тому

    Girl asked if my tattoos hurt. I shouldve said yes, but i like the pain. Lol.

  • @Saskobest
    @Saskobest 11 днів тому

    Hitch should never be forgotten! Giant of a man

  • @donnyowens4347
    @donnyowens4347 12 днів тому

    Such a great man and way ahead of his time

  • @essentialatom
    @essentialatom 13 днів тому

    2:10:19 Interesting to hear him describe his lack of enthusiasm for any candidate and say that he's unlikely to vote in the upcoming election. He later talked about his pleasure at voting for Obama and how impressive a candidate he was. I wonder when his mind was changed.

  • @JamesW225
    @JamesW225 15 днів тому

    Depth ?

  • @michaeljohn1963
    @michaeljohn1963 17 днів тому

    Hitchens’s raw and clearly spoken honesty in all things was a one of a kind. Long after his death I am still learning from him. Thankfully we still have Sam Harris, but Sam lacks the cutting humor and literary expansiveness of Hitchens. I also relate to his dislike of the title of “contrarian.” I think he was trying to say his views may be contrary to those held by most others, but this is not his intent-this just happens to be the case and he just happens to be vocal about those views.

  • @13thbiosphere
    @13thbiosphere 17 днів тому

    George Washington the pro-slaver was not a friend of Thomas, at best he was neutral

  • @TakeNoteOfThat
    @TakeNoteOfThat 19 днів тому

    Lil baby Hitch

  • @ChrisJMoreno
    @ChrisJMoreno 20 днів тому

    Zinger at 44:33 ... ha!

  • @daedraq
    @daedraq 21 день тому

    He saw through Putin very early.

  • @pixieseyz
    @pixieseyz 22 дні тому

    Christ incarnate.

  • @1984isnotamanual
    @1984isnotamanual 24 дні тому

    Anyone watching recently?

  • @1984isnotamanual
    @1984isnotamanual 24 дні тому

    Something in the description of this video about the Hitch is totally wrong and misrepresents him. “The September 11, 2001 attacks strengthened his embrace of an interventionist foreign policy”. This is not true at all, he had been for removing Saddam Hussein from power many years before 9/11 and he was in solidarity with the Iraqi opposition, particularly the Kurds. What 9/11 made him realize is that we were in a war with jihadists that most of us didn’t know we were fighting until that horrible day

  • @DanTom-qj1if
    @DanTom-qj1if 26 днів тому

    The sheer joy at finding a ‘ Hitchens Thing’ that you haven’t listened to when you convince yourself that you’ve exhausted his online content…. It made my daily commute to and from work so much more enjoyable. Mr Hitchens thank you for all of your common sense and superb articulation ❤️

  • @sybariticops
    @sybariticops 29 днів тому

    For the question at 14:00 minutes in: In addition to Pres. Clinton's ill fated Sudan strike, one of the most striking failures of the Clinton Administration was the continued use, funding and support of networks affiliated with, either financially or logistically or politically, a burgeoning Al-Qaeda network, during the Yugoslav Wars of the 1990's. Particularly, the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) -- one of the principle recipients of CIA & DOD largess, training, and weapons -- had discreet ties with Al Qaeda in the form of Ayaman Al Zawahiri, who during the slaughter by the Serbs of Bosnian and Croatian civilians, capitalized on the previous relationship the US had with Al Qaeda during the Afghan-Soviet War supporting the Arab-Afghan legion of fighters coming in from all over the Middle East and diluting the original indigenous resistance movement. During the 90's, Zawahiri is reported to have traveled to Bosnia in order to lead various Special Operations Elements within the KLA. This leads us down a rabbit hole, but even after the '83 Beirut Barracks Bombings, the '93 WTC Bombings, the '96 NY Landmarks "Day of Terror" Plot, and the '98 Kenya and Tanzania Embassy Bombings, the US Govt demonstrated a continued relationship with dangerous Jihadist elements throughout the US (Al-Khifa Center & Maktab Al Khidimat National Arab Afghan Volunteer Recruitment Network) and Middle East into the 1990's as Al Qaeda began to spread and openly declare their hatred and jihad against the United States. One interesting connection that surfaced and illuminated this continued relationship was Egyptian double agent, Ali Mohammed. Worked for CIA, FBI, and US Army, took US Army leave in 1981 (while on a Egyptian-US military partnership training program at Ft. Bragg) to go fight the Soviets in Afghanistan, trained 2 of the hijackers in airplane hijacking techniques (Nawaf Al Hamzi & Khalid Al Midhar), provided surveillance photos to Bin Laden in early 90's which was used to carry out the '98 embassy bombings, was the source for the Aug 2001 President's Daily Brief "Bin Laden Determined to Strike the US", and continued to be on US Govt payroll up until 2001, when he was detained and interrogated by George Cloonan of the FBI. I have not been able to find any updated information on Ali Mohammed, but he is almost certainly in witness protection.

  • @EricHansonMusic
    @EricHansonMusic 29 днів тому

    Good points... with insidious anti-Christian drivel mixed in

  • @solitarianihilista1454
    @solitarianihilista1454 Місяць тому

    26:58 "...that KGB goon and thug Vladimir Putin..." Hitch had the true measure of him long before most of the rest of us.

  • @jaredwillard3022
    @jaredwillard3022 Місяць тому

    The callers who support the Clintons are a perfect representation of the collective brainpower present in the democratic party of today. Seems as things change, the more they stay the same.

  • @jazzy4chazzee802
    @jazzy4chazzee802 Місяць тому

    total ignorance of the Founding Fathers and their spiritualism

  • @miquelr2353
    @miquelr2353 Місяць тому

    As ive watched a lot and a lot of footage of ww2, its pretty undeniable there were extermination and concentration camps..

  • @deepstateglobalgala
    @deepstateglobalgala Місяць тому

    34:50

  • @PeterBlue-jl8ro
    @PeterBlue-jl8ro Місяць тому

    God the father God the son Jesus Christ God the Holy Spirit! I am pray for this world! Heaven is real Hell is real which one u gon choose! Amen

  • @whoopijansen4109
    @whoopijansen4109 Місяць тому

    2:46:24 this one hurt 😢

  • @Richie.G.String
    @Richie.G.String Місяць тому

    As an atheist (as I am), Hitchens seems to have a lot of time for the Israeli state. Zionism? I wonder if he were alive now what he'd think about the current goings on in Gaza. There's an inconsistency.

    • @Suplex479
      @Suplex479 Місяць тому

      As most people in the Western world, he is very ignorant about the subject, which is understandable, so I think his opinion, whatever it is, would be misinformed

    • @Knight766
      @Knight766 15 днів тому

      There is no inconsistency if you understand Hamas and most Palestinian's priority.

  • @canoftomatoes
    @canoftomatoes Місяць тому

    Has anybody else noticed, that throughout this discussion, Christopher Hitchens is framed in camera in a very awkward position? What i mean is the rule of thirds concept of framing someone in a shot. William Buckley and that idiot Emmett Tyrrell are framed just right in the thirds rule, but the camera angle on Christopher looks awkward. I wonder if because he was a liberal (i hate the term, but for arguments sake) and the other 2 are conservative, this was an intentional ploy in the hands of the producers and director? Just a running thought, not seeking an argument. Fantastic example of someone being ripped to shreds intellectually. RIP Hitch

  • @peterkerruish8136
    @peterkerruish8136 Місяць тому

    Hitch (not sure if u can hear me),M8 I've followed + loved your wit + how you've destroyed your opponents in religious debates with your intelligence for years. But I honestly believe that you have sold out to the "american establishment + the zionists ", m8 look back on who you were - and who you come across as now.

  • @lunainezdelamancha3368
    @lunainezdelamancha3368 Місяць тому

    Nature is my god, it's bounty is my love and conscience, & science my religion. By....I don't remember who.☺️

  • @marindedi8424
    @marindedi8424 Місяць тому

    First: who can claim to be sinless or have the power to be with God for eternity without God's intervention? Second,:"For all care l can go to hell."Wish granted .

  • @mickpenning6132
    @mickpenning6132 Місяць тому

    What was the outcome of the final ballot?

  • @paulwhitmore6335
    @paulwhitmore6335 Місяць тому

    “Almost certainly a rapist” 😂😂

  • @mfecanegukurahundi24
    @mfecanegukurahundi24 Місяць тому

    It’s clear that Peter Hitchin was a Communist who was intent on spreading poisonous lies. Look at South Africa now in 2024, a failed state thanks to his Communist buddies, the ANC.

  • @seanohara1736
    @seanohara1736 Місяць тому

    Chris had a real wake up call when he made his pilgrimage to Havana and realized how wrong he had been about the Marxist Utopia he had previously fawning over so much

  • @EnchiladaBoredom
    @EnchiladaBoredom Місяць тому

    California County District Google Master Moon Visalia California People's

  • @mischelledavis1227
    @mischelledavis1227 Місяць тому

    I admire Hitch’s ability to stay calm, measured, and on-point. He’s unflappable…makes him a force to be reckoned with. I miss you Hitch! ❤

  • @Noelhayes82
    @Noelhayes82 Місяць тому

    The fella in the blue suit , is Dan the High Talker from Seinfeld

  • @Jerlynvins
    @Jerlynvins Місяць тому

    We Trump supporters need to be careful getting too cocky( as they were here in 1984) when he wins this election. We will not be witnessing a conservative renaissance. The left will be extremely fired up and likely take it back in 2028. There will be no more Trump's. He was one of a kind.

  • @DexterDexter123
    @DexterDexter123 Місяць тому

    that cough. 😢

  • @tonylord9917
    @tonylord9917 Місяць тому

    This guy was a fat sack of nothing. Having issues with Mother Teresa? I noticed he didn't have the sack to debate her because she would have destroyed him. He hated her because she wanted to eliminate unborn child slaughter and contraception. He believed that those two evil acts would reduce the poor. In other words he wants the government, of course, to sterilize the destitute, slaughter any babies that happened to make it through, and then once that's completed just sit back and let the poor die off. This is how he means to decrease the surplus population. That's demonic.

  • @DexterDexter123
    @DexterDexter123 2 місяці тому

    that cheeky look on Christopher’s face. ❤

  • @onemanschorus12
    @onemanschorus12 2 місяці тому

    Tyrell is a dope.

  • @andrewconnor4429
    @andrewconnor4429 2 місяці тому

    When he died I wept. We lost something. Cannot be replaced. In the intervening years I have only cried two other times. I cannot put into words what he did for my life.

  • @capsitan
    @capsitan 2 місяці тому

    lord he was so brilliant

  • @eliasgotzfried1131
    @eliasgotzfried1131 2 місяці тому

    4:32