Christopher Hitchens in Conversation with Salman Rushdie at the 92nd Street Y

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Introduced by Graydon Carter at the 92nd Street Y, Jun 8, 2010, Hitchens was interviewed by Salman Rushdie.

They spoke of Hitchens' searing memoir entitled Hitch 22 that lays bare the many contradictions in his life and affirms his conviction that all personal is also political.

Christopher Hitchens is a contributing editor to Vanity Fair and a visiting professor of liberal studies at the New School. He is the author of numerous books, including works on Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, George Orwell, Mother Teresa, Bill and Hillary Clinton, Henry Kissinger and his #1 New York Times bestseller and National Book Award nominee, God Is Not Great.

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[debobak]

where is the rest of this?!? this was fantastic!

[fluffynoses]

last time i saw these two together...that absolute braindead asshole Mos Def ruined the whole thing. glad to see that stupid ghetto dumbass isn't here to ruin a proper intellectual debate

[RagdollRalph]

Hahaha, the first thing you see is that hair!

[patrick112590]

@smurfieboo And therefore not a historical figure. :P

[smurfieboo]

@patrick112590 From Middlemarch, the novel by George Elliot.

[3rdWorldUnite]

This guy's hair is HILARIOUS, haha. 

[WLDB]

Surprisingly calm. This was the day he was diagnosed.

[dublo7]

Terribly sad to hear Hitchens talk about his mother.

"Some wounds, I think, should stay fresh"

[rypaz87]

@MissAvatar2011 no, the comment is generally true. If you don't accept it, then you may as well have just left it at "rest in peace". As you point out, Hitch would have a problem with it but not to the condition in which he's resting, but on the proposition that he's resting at all. You were partially correct. Just curb your solipsism and you'll be quite there!

[TempleOfInanna2]

@MissAvatar2011 I know what you mean. But to be technical, even the wish of "rest in oblivion" doesn't fit. There is no rest to be. Your conciousness simply no longer exists, as in before you were born. If we did exist before we were born, there is no recollection of it thus making it irrelevant and non-existant for all practical purposes.