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The Symposiast: Remembering Christopher Hitchens
The American Conservative· 7 days agoImpossible as it is to believe, Christopher Hitchens, the enfant terrible of Anglo-American politics and letters, would have turned 75 today, almost 13...
The Worst Day of My Life Was the Day I Learned to Read
The Atlantic· 7 days agoThe award is given by the Dennis & Victoria Ross Foundation in association with The Atlantic, where ...
The NSA Wants Carte Blanche for Warrantless Surveillance
The Nation· 1 day agoStanding at the thick, eavesdropper-proof windows of his office suite on the eighth floor of OPS 2B,...
Famous birthdays for April 13: Caroline Rhea, Allison Williams
United Press International via Yahoo News· 7 days ago...Musician Jack Casady (Jefferson Airplane) in 1944 (age 80) -- Actor Tony Dow in 1945 -- Musician...
Salman Rushdie's 'Knife' is unflinching about his brutal stabbing and uncanny in its vital spirit
Las Vegas Sun· 4 days agoAuthor Salman Rushdie receives the Vaclav Havel Library Foundation’s first ever lifetime achievement...
Salman Rushdie Reflects on His Stabbing in a New Memoir
New York Times· 5 days ago“So it’s you,” Salman Rushdie remembers thinking on the morning of Aug. 12, 2022, as a black-clad...
On This Day in History - April 13th - Almanac - UPI.com
UPI· 7 days agoOn April 13, 1873, a mob of former Confederate soldiers and Ku Klux Klan members killed dozens of...
