A powerful appeal from Hitchens when he was clearly in decline. Carpe diem.
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Hitchens would have had his 62nd birthday this past week, and Charlie Rose did a powerful roundtable discussion with four of his closest friends—Salmon Rushdie, Martin Amis, Ian McEwan, and James Fenton—in memoriam. Here’s the link to that show’s webpage at Rose’s website (though, last I checked, the video is not yet posted there).
Prometheus Unbound 