Several readers sent me a link to yesterday’s Guardian dialogue between philosopher Julian Baggini and physicist Lawrence Krauss, “Philosophy v. science: Which can answer the big questions of life?” You should read it. Baggini has previously taken strong stands against “scientism” (which he defines in this piece as the insistence “that, if a question isn’t […]
The New York Times reported yesterday on the arrest of two New York jewelry dealers for selling illegally poached ivory. The illegal goods weighed more than a ton—equivalent to 100 dead elephants. The case, brought by the Manhattan district attorney’s office, reflects an unsettling trend. Last year, some 24 tons of ivory was seized around […]
Today (June 23) marks the 40th anniversary of Title IX, the U. S. Congress’s “Education Amendments of 1972″, which was signed into law by Richard Nixon on June 23, 1972. In 37 brief words, Congress eliminated discrimination against women in educational institutions. Section 1681. Sex (a) Prohibition against discrimination; exceptions. No person in the United States shall, […]
Here are the last three tributes to Hitchens proffered by our readers. I wanted to save the first one for the last day because it’s so lovely, elegiac and creative. Reader Andrew Hackett composed a piece of music, “in memoriam: c e h” and made a video of himself playing it on the organ. It’s […]
This will be the last collective tribute to Hitch, although there are a few miscellaneous items I’ll post soon, and a special musical tribute tomorrow. As you might have expected, most of the tributes to the man involved amber restoratives, and I’ve put the remaining ones here. From Hempenstein, an old college pal of mine, […]
There are still enough of these for a few more days, and, surprisingly, a few are still trickling in. If you have something worth showing, do send it along. Landon Ross sent in two pictures, and I decided to use both of them. In the first, he’s with Hitch: One could tell he was always […]
We’ll have a few more days of readers’ tributes to the life of Christopher Hitchens. This one is from Dominik Miketa: This photo was taken in the Lindsay Bar of Balliol College, Oxford, where Hitch spent his undergraduate years reading Philosophy, Politics and Economics. People at Balliol are so proud of the great man: you […]
We already had “Hitchslap,” but now The Urban Dictionary has adopted a new word coined by Anne Crumpacker:
Here’s the third installment of the readers’ tributes to the life of Christopher Hitchens. From Sigmund, who’s also put this one on his Sneer Review: From Cameron: “For Hitch. Not great but original and done with love.” From Rich and Barbara Sammons: The contagion of your insights, courage, and humor will forever energize us. From […]
Dan Dennett’s “eulogy” for Hitchens, “A lessons from Hitch: When rudeness is called for,” is up at the Washington Post‘s “On Faith” section. It’s about his experience with Hitch in a debate at the Ciudad de las Ideas conference in Publa, Mexico. I was that meeting, but had to leave right before the debate began. I’ll […]
