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As he once wrote of Kipling, his own enduring influence can be measured by a number of terms and phrases—doublethink, thought police, 'Some animals ar...more

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Let's say that the consensus is that our species, being the higher primates, Homo Sapiens, has been on the planet for at least 100,000 years, maybe mo...more

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So this is where all the vapid talk about the 'soul' of the universe is actually headed. Once the hard-won principles of reason and science have been ...more

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Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that's where it should stay.

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For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him will believeth in anything. - Hitchens 3:16

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The anti-life of [Jerry Falwell] proves only one thing: that you can get away with the most extraordinary offenses to morality and truth in this count...more

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The Postmodernists' tyranny wears people down by boredom and semi-literate prose.

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Many things in this period have been hard to bear, or hard to take seriously. My own profession went into a protracted swoon during the Reagan-Bush-Th...more

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A note on language. Be even more suspicious than I was just telling you to be, of all those who employ the term "we" or "us" without your permission. ...more

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The enduring rapture with magic and fable has always struck me as latently childish and somehow sexless (and thus also related to childlessness).

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It is truth, in the old saying, that is 'the daughter of time,' and the lapse of half a century has not left us many of our illusions. Churchill tried...more

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I have tried to write about politics in an allusive manner that draws upon other interests and to approach literature and criticism without ignoring t...more

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Shrouded as he was for a decade in an apparent cloak of anonymity and obscurity, Osama bin Laden was by no means an invisible man. He was ubiquitous a...more

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But what [Orwell] illustrates, by his commitment to language as the partner of truth, is that 'views' do not really count; that it matters not what yo...more