Like Einstein, he viewed ethics as "an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it," a position that sparked conflict with his journalist brother, Peter, who has argued that, "For a moral code to be effective, it must be attributed t

Even in death he stands tall and apart from the parochial, bien-peasant, trilling, beard-stroking mediocrities – face-timers and time-servers of the writing life, men and women who have never written a good line of prose or provided a single insight into

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His brother had that chance. Peter Hitchens shared his older brother's atheism until returning several years ago to the faith they abandoned. In The Rage Against God: How Atheism Led Me To Faith, he describes eloquently this ideological journey. He makes

"Many people who should know better are still cheering David Cameron for his supposed mighty veto in Brussels on December 9", Peter Hitchens says. "They are doing this because they passionately want it to be true. They want Mr Cameron to be a patriotic c

LONDON — Christopher Hitchens, who died Thursday at the age of 62, described himself as an “essayist and a contrarian.” As a journalist, critic, war correspondent and bon vivant, he enjoyed a 40-year career as one of the world’s most ubiquitous, prolific