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<title><![CDATA[Christopher Hitchens - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/14432.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Christopher Hitchens]]></description><category domain="14432">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Islam's Assassination of the Mind]]></title>
							<link>http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2009/02/hitchens200902</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Hitchens</author>
							<description><![CDATA[At a dinner party that will forever be green in the memory of those who attended it, somebody was complaining not just about the epic badness of the novels of Robert Ludlum but also about the badness of their titles. (You know the sort of pretentiousness: The Bourne Supremacy, The...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Jackie Kennedy: Widow of Opportunity]]></title>
							<link>http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2011/12/hitchens-201112</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Hitchens</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If you were to set a competition for the headline most unlikely to appear in an American magazine, the winning entry would surely be jackie tacky or tacky jackie. In her life and even posthumously, it always somehow fell to Jackie Kennedy to raise the tone. An exacting task in her case,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[David Mamet's Straw Book]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/19/books/review/book-review-the-secret-knowledge-by-david-mamet.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Hitchens</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This is an extraordinarily irritating book, written by one of those people who smugly believe that, having lost their faith, they must ipso facto have found their reason. In order to be persuaded by it, you would have to be open to propositions like this:&ldquo;Part of the left&rsquo;s...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Pakistan's Twisted Revenge]]></title>
							<link>http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2011/07/osama-bin-laden-201107</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Hitchens</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Salman Rushdie&rsquo;s upsettingly brilliant psycho-profile of Pakistan, in his 1983 novel, Shame, rightly laid emphasis on the crucial part played by sexual repression in the Islamic republic. And that was before the Talibanization of Afghanistan, and of much of Pakistan, too. Let me ...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Serbian Lesson for the Western World]]></title>
							<link>http://www.slate.com/id/2295807/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Hitchens</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I suppose it is possible that the arrest of Gen. Ratko Mladic  is as undramatic and uncomplicated as it seems and that in recent years  he had been off the active list and gradually became a mumbling old  derelict with a rather nasty line in veterans' reminiscences. His  demands would...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Are We Committed to Afghanistan or Karzai?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.slate.com/id/2278615/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 20 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Hitchens</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Richard HolbrookeFriends of his would enjoy disputing whether his heart or his ego was the larger, but it was sad to know, as Richard Holbrooke's heart eventually burst, that he had strained a good deal of it in upholding a policy in which much of his best advice had been, or was being,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Republicans Unleash Tea Party Poison]]></title>
							<link>http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2011/01/hitchens-201101</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 11 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Hitchens</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It is often in the excuses and in the apologies that one finds the  real offense. Looking back on the domestic political &ldquo;surge&rdquo; which the  populist right has been celebrating since last month, I found myself  most dispirited by the manner in which the more sophisticated ...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Turn Yourself In, Julian Assange]]></title>
							<link>http://www.slate.com/id/2276857/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Hitchens</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Julian AssangeIn my most recent book, I reprint some words from a British Embassy cable, sent from Baghdad to the Foreign Office in 1976. The subject is Iraq's new leader. His quiet coup d'etat is reassuringly described as "the first smooth transfer of power since 1958." It is added, as...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Guide to Cancer Etiquette]]></title>
							<link>http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2010/12/hitchens-201012</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 07 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Hitchens</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Ever since I was felled in mid-book tour this summer, I have adored and  seized all chances to play catch-up and to keep as many engagements as I  can. Debating and lecturing are part of the breath of life to me, and I  take deep drafts whenever and wherever possible. I also truly enjoy...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Tolerance Test for Muslims?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.slate.com/id/2264770/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Hitchens</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf Two weeks ago, I wrote that the arguments against the construction of the Cordoba Initiative center in lower Manhattan were so stupid and demagogic as to be beneath notice. Things have only gone further south since then, with Newt Gingrich's comparison to a Nazi...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Topic of Cancer]]></title>
							<link>http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2010/09/hitchens-201009</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Hitchens</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I have more than once in my time woken up feeling like death. But nothing prepared me for the early morning last June when I came to consciousness feeling as if I were actually shackled to my own corpse. The whole cave of my chest and thorax seemed to have been hollowed out and then...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[On Hugo Chavez's Mental Health]]></title>
							<link>http://www.slate.com/id/2262520/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Hitchens</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Recent accounts of Hugo Ch&#195;&#161;vez's politicized necrophilia may seem almost too lurid to believe, but I can testify from personal experience that they may well be an understatement. In the early hours of July 16"&rdquo;just at the midnight hour, to be precise"&rdquo;Venezuela's capo...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Send McChrystal Back to Iraq]]></title>
							<link>http://www.slate.com/id/2259431/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Hitchens</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Gen. Stanley McChrystal Among the many bad impressions currently being given by the United States is the perception that we only have two real generals. And it seems to have taken a while for us to realize that this number has just been halved. Until last month, we only had two generals...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Charles, Prince of Piffle]]></title>
							<link>http://www.slate.com/id/2256915/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Hitchens</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Prince CharlesThis is what you get when you found a political system on the family values of Henry VIII. At a point in the not-too-remote future, the stout heart of Queen Elizabeth II will cease to beat. At that precise moment, her firstborn son will become head of state, head of the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[In Your Face]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Hitchens</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The French legislators who seek to repudiate the wearing of the veil or the burqa--whether the garment covers "only" the face or the entire female body--are often described as seeking to impose a "ban." To the contrary, they are attempting to lift a ban: a ban on the right of women to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Bring the Pope to Justice]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newsweek.com/id/236934</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Hitchens</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Detain or subpoena the pope for questioning in the child-rape scandal? You must be joking! All right then, try the only alternative formulation: declare the pope to be above and beyond all local and international laws, and immune when it comes to his personal and institutional...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Death of Theocracy]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Hitchens</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Tehran's thugs cannot last.Please fill in the following information and we'll email this link.Separate multiple addresses with commasThe term "theocracy" trips readily enough off the tongue and is an accurate description of a system where mortals claim the right to dominate other mortals...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Truth About Airline Security]]></title>
							<link>http://www.slate.com/id/2239935/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Hitchens</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It's getting to the point where the twin news stories more or less write themselves. No sooner is the fanatical and homicidal Muslim arrested than it turns out that he (it won't be long until it is also she) has been known to the authorities for a long time. But somehow the watch list,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The 'War on Terrorism' Didn't Cause Ft. Hood]]></title>
							<link>http://www.slate.com/id/2236442/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Hitchens</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It's both amusing and educational to observe a consensus when it suddenly starts to give way at all points without yielding an inch. A couple of weeks ago, the consoling view was that Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan was a man more to be pitied than feared, a full-blown officer in the U.S. armed...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Wait To Disarm Iran?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.slate.com/id/2232860/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Hitchens</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Mahmoud Ahmadinejad A contradiction must be faced by those of us who don't especially like the propaganda name neoconservative but who wish that there was a useful term for someone who favors a robust American attitude toward totalitarian and aggressive states. This contradiction often...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Iran's Most Wanted]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Hitchens</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Clinton's North Korea Visit Wasn't Worth It]]></title>
							<link>http://www.slate.com/id/2224779/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Hitchens</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Bill Clinton with Laura Ling and Euna LeeI call your attention to a small detail about Laura Ling and Euna Lee, the two American journalists who were wrongfully arrested, illegally detained, and then capriciously released by the crime family that controls the northern section of the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[U.S. Should Also Consider Banning Burkas]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2009/07/01/2009-07-01_learn_from_france__and_consider_banning_the_burka.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Hitchens</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Last week French President Nicolas Sarkozy announced his support for legislation to ban the burka, the dark, heavy and not-too-comfortable garment worn by many Muslim women. The question arises: Is this forcible French secularism run amok, or a prohibition that Americans, who often...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Iran's Leaders Will Always Blame the West]]></title>
							<link>http://www.slate.com/id/2221020/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Hitchens</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Read more of Slate's coverage of Iran's June 12 election and its aftermath.Ayatollah Ali Khamenei  I have twice had the privilege of sitting, poorly shaved, on the floor and attending the Friday prayers that the Iranian theocracy sponsors each week on the campus of Tehran University. As...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Don't Call it an Election in Iran]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Hitchens</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For a flavor of the political atmosphere in Tehran, Iran, last week, I quote from a young Iranian comrade who furnishes me with regular updates:

I went to the last major Ahmadinejad rally and got the whiff of what I imagine fascism to have been all about. Lots of splotchy boys who can't...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Turkey Proves It Doesn't Belong in the EU]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[Texas Is Right on Teaching Evolution]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Hitchens</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Please fill in the following information and we'll email this link.Separate multiple addresses with commasMention the name "Texas" and the word "schoolbook" to many people of a certain age (such as my own) and the resulting free association will come up with the word "depository" and the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Terrorists, Dissidents, and Copy Editors]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[Watch What You Say About Islam]]></title>
							<link>http://www.slate.com/id/2212662/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is Zimbabwe Now a Rogue State?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.slate.com/id/2210830/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Hitchens</author>
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