Showing posts with label christopher hitchens. Show all posts
Showing posts with label christopher hitchens. Show all posts

Saturday, August 7, 2010

Christopher Hitchens Talks About Cancer

Christopher Hitchens talks candidly and wittily about his esophageal cancer in this Vanity Fair article, and to Jeffrey Goldberg in this video (with an appearence by Martin Amis)...



Although he says the prognosis isn't great for him, let's hope his treatment is successful and he doesn't get to not meet his maker (as he doesn't really exist) any time soon.

Monday, November 9, 2009

Is the Catholic Church A Force For Good?

I've been waiting all day for this to be posted to YouTube and finally I found it this evening.

Stephen Fry and Christopher Hitchens debate with Archbishop John Onaiyekan and Anne Widdecombe MP, the merits, or otherwise, of the Catholic church...



Stephen Fry's opening argument is particularly impressive. If you want to skip to that, jump forward to the 3rd video (use the ">" on the right hand side of video (appears when you hover over the playing video) and scroll 1 minute 30 seconds into it.