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Christopher Hitchens
GBH News· 4 days agoChristopher Eric Hitchens is an author, journalist and literary critic. Hitchens is also a political observer, whose books the latest being *God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything ...
Salman Rushdie’s ‘Knife’ unflinching about his stabbing
The Columbian· 4 days agoIn Salman Rushdie’s first book since the 2022 stabbing that hospitalized him and left him blind in...
Daniel Dennett, philosophical giant who championed “naturalism,” dead at 82
Ars Technica· 5 days agoWorld-renowned philosopher Daniel Dennett, who championed controversial takes on consciousness and...
Richard Dawkins Takes a Step Beyond the ‘God Delusion’
The Dispatch via Yahoo News· 4 days agoBut for a staunch atheist like him, it actually is a significant step. For decades, both Dawkins and...
The NSA Wants Carte Blanche for Warrantless Surveillance
The Nation· 6 days agoStanding at the thick, eavesdropper-proof windows of his office suite on the eighth floor of OPS 2B,...
Daniel Dennett, atheist philosopher guided by science, dies at 82
Washington Post· 4 days agoSuch were the questions raised by Daniel C. Dennett, a prolific and often provocative American philosopher whose theories — including the essence of consciousness itself — reached wide audiences ...
Salman Rushdie: Free Speech for Me But Not for Thee - The American Spectator | USA News and Politics
American Spectator· 16 hours agoTwo summers ago, Salman Rushdie was stabbed by an Islamist radical while giving a talk at the Chautauqua Institution in upstate New York. The attack left him blind in one eye and his body and face nearly ruined.