Christopher Hitchens Q&A

Author and journalist Christopher Hitchens takes questions from audience during his March 3, 2010, Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture at UCLA. The lecture was presented by the UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations, the Daniel Pearl Foundation and the Yitzhak Rabin Hillel Center for Jewish Life at UCLA.

A well-known commentator on contemporary thought, politics and culture, Hitchens has written more than a dozen books and corresponded from more than 60 countries. He has contributed regularly to the Atlantic, Slate, Vanity Fair, the New York Review of Books, the London Review of Books, Washington Post Book World, the Nation, the National Review and the New Left Review, among other media outlets. Honored frequently for his reporting and the literary quality of his prose, Hitchens received a National Magazine Award in 2007 and was a finalist for a 2007 National Book Award. He appears frequently on radio and television broadcasts.

BACKGROUND:
Daniel Pearl was a prominent Wall Street Journal reporter and the paper's South Asia bureau chief when he was kidnapped and murdered by terrorists in Pakistan in early 2002. Pearl's father, Judea Pearl, a computer science professor at UCLA, and his family established the Daniel Pearl Foundation to promote and continue Daniel's mission of fostering cross-cultural understanding throughout the world. The lecture series, established at UCLA in 2002, features scholars, journalists and policymakers who have contributed original analyses or constructive approaches to problems of international concern.

Previous presenters of the Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture have included Anderson Cooper, David Brooks, Ted Koppel, Larry King, Jeff Greenfield, Daniel Schorr and Thomas Friedman. In 2006, a parallel lecture series was established at Stanford University, which has featured Sen. Joseph Lieberman, Philip Zimbardo, Bernard-Henri Lévy and Christiane Amanpour.

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[TAz69x]

I wish I could clone an army of Hitchens's, so we could rule the world rationally!...

...muahahaahahaaaa! *evil altruistic laugh

=3

[melancholicme123]

@Exiledloser I completely agree. But I would add another enemy to the equation: the Vatican, i.e., the only theocratical monarchy left in the Western World. Their teachings are dangerous, wicked, pernicious, immoral, insidious, degrading, preposterous, misogynistic, and homophobic, It's no surprise that the Vatican aligned itself with the Islamic nations in an effort to veto a UN resolution that would de-criminalize homosexuality worldwide.

[samaroo96]

Knowing about car and how it works does not disprove car designer. Same way knowing about universe and how it works does not disprove God. We know gases in sun, law of gravity, distance of planets it does not disprove God. But how they came in existence, Who created it ? Was it by evolution theory and big bang action, From where beginning of Life started first ? All these are still mystery. Theists believe all was created by God, atheists believe it was created by itself.

[detahdomo]

kerfuffle

[Kclaybond]

R.I.P Hitch

[2210ethan]

"A Great voice has fallen silent. A great heart has stopped."

[cameradanblack]

What a wit Chris had. I will never regret emulating him in my life.

[IgnoranceBlissful]

What a void has been made.

[Zimnyification]

This guy can go on forever without exhausting his word or thought supply. He's so great.