Nation Topics - Christopher Hitchens | The Nation

The critic James Wolcott has been gamely fighting losing battles for most of his career.

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“Christopher had a twenty-five-year adventure with The Nation that I hope was as rewarding for him as it was for us, despite the political collisions.”

Christopher was moved, in his choice of objects of animosity, by an unstable mixture of calculation and conviction.

With a dry, sharp, ironic voice—Christopher Hitchens graced The Nation’s pages from 1978 to 2006. The best of his articles, columns and reviews are collected here. 

The robust Nation of today is the child of many parents, but the largest and oldest political weekly in the country owes a great debt to Betty Williams for her indispensable role during those rebuilding years.

Scientists, Sam Harris writes, are the saints of circumspection. If that’s true, then with his writing on religion and morality Harris breaks the mold.
 

The revolution is far from over.

I don't like face-veiling either. But how does criminalizing Muslim women's clothing make them more equal?

A clash between a feminist activist and a former Guantánamo detainee divides the left.