Category: Hitchens, Christopher
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Fragility and Mortality
A piece of glass is fragile in that it is disposed to shatter if suitably struck. But there is no inevitability in any fragile object's ever breaking. There is no necessity that the disposition be realized. A chocolate bar is disposed to melt in certain circumstances. It has this disposition at every time at which…
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Is Nothing Sacred?
The Los Angeles Dodgers, in 'go woke, go broke' mode, have foolishly breathed new life into the late Christopher Hitchens and the blasphemy question. Substack latest. But will the 'woke' go broke? That depends on us. As our institutions continue to shove deviancy and degeneracy into our faces, the meaningful question is: Will the Right…
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Cigarettes, Rationality, and Hitchens
Substack latest: Let's talk about cigarettes. Suppose you smoke one pack per day. Is that irrational? I hope all will agree that no one who is concerned to be optimally healthy as long as possible should smoke 20 cigarettes a day, let alone 80 like Rod Serling who died at age 50 on the operating…
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Care of Soul and Body
To care properly for the first, live each day as if it will be your last. To care properly for the second, live each day as if your supply of days is infinite. (Adapted from Evagrius Ponticus.) ………………………. The mortalist body-abuser is one puzzling hombre. Christopher Hitchens loved to drink and he loved to smoke…
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Am I a Body or Do I Have a Body?
In his last book, Mortality, the late Christopher Hitchens writes, "I don't have a body, I am a body." (86) He goes on to observe that he has "consciously and regularly acted as if this was not true." It is a curious fact that mortalists are among the worst abusers of the fleshly vehicle. But…
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Hitchens, Horowitz, Clinton, and Impeachment
Christopher Hitchens died on this date in 2011. The synergistic effects of his excessive consumption of smoke and spirits did him in at the tender age of 62. By comparison, David Horowitz is still going strong at 81 churning out books, manning the ramparts, and fighting the good fight. May he live to be 100!…