Christopher Hitchens in Seattle: God is not Great

A fantastic video of Christopher Hitchens giving a great overview of his atheism, anti-theism, general disdain for religion, and the need for a new enlightenment. The video gives a nice sampling of what can be found in God is Not Great.  I suggest that you fast forward over the doofy man who introduces Mr. Hitchens. [...]

China Shakes the World

Has anyone read this book by James Kynge? I just started it last night and found the introduction painful–mainly because of the overly stressed (and probably apocryphal) quotation by Napoleon (”let China sleep, for when she wakes she will shake the world”). Moreover, the book’s tone seems to be a cheap version of Thomas Friedman’s [...]