Polemic

Remembering Christopher Hitchens, 1949-2011

Only writer, commentator, contrarian, public intellectual, and noted atheist  Christopher Hitchens knows now whether he has indeed gone off to some grim North Korea in the sky. Hitchens, who once imagined the idea of an afterlife as “like living in North Korea,” died Thursday in Houston at age 62. The cause was complications from esophageal cancer, […]