Christopher Hitchens, in 'Hitch 22', explores the allure of blissful ignorance, admitting envy for those untouched by harsh realities. While acknowledging its peace, he also notes its limitations. The ...

Let me ask you something before you scroll past this, my friend: what happens when a society spends twenty years mocking God, ...

Mass. Politics resumes July 13 with WBUR's new senior state politics reporter Gintautas Dumcius spearheading the weekly ...

Daniel Okrent is a former managing editor of 'Life' magazine and served as the first public editor of 'The New York Times' ...

Let’s hope the party is ruined by a Democratic landslide.

“Yeah, I spent a lot of time there as a kid,” she says. “We went back and forth constantly. I always considered myself just ...

Christopher Hitchens with his wife, Carol Blue, during a trip to Romania in 1989. Image: Courtesy of Carol Blue Hitchens' Widow On Mourning And 'Mortality' For 18 months, while undergoing treatment ...

Americans may have won independence 250 years ago, but they have never stopped caring what the Brits think of them.

In this brief yet dense biography, the newest in HarperCollins's Eminent Lives series, Hitchens (A Long Short War, etc.) proposes that Jefferson ""designed America"" when he wrote the Declaration of ...

While his COVID output and enabling of MAHA doctors should be remembered, it’s not clear why anyone should pay attention to ...

First Epistle to the Corinthians 13:12Every age has its master narrative.There was a time when history was explained almost ...

Alan Greenspan, former Federal Reserve chair, died at 100 from Parkinson’s disease complications. Here's his cause of death, career, and legacy.