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-Thatcher decade, and shows scant sign of recovering...
Christopher Hitchens
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faith, politics, religion, science, truth, humanism, enlightenment, literature, atheism, irony
Individual cultures and ideologies have their appropriate uses but none of them erase or replace the universal experiences, like love and weeping and laughter, common to all human beings.
Aberjhani
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joy, humanity, laughter, universal, human beings, diversity, universal truths, joy of life, weeping, ideology
Hitherto, the Palestinians had been relatively immune to this style. I thought this was a hugely retrograde development. I said as much to Edward. To reprint Nazi propaganda and to make a theocratic...
Christopher Hitchens
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fascism, islam, muslims, united states, leftists, theocracy, christians, israel, religious extremism, oil