A wartime lexicon.

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• Fidel Gets Religion Why on earth did Castro build a Russian Orthodox cathedral in Havana?
  Christopher Hitchens Nov. 17, 2008
  
• Barack to Reality Obama's victory didn't magically eliminate America's problems and enemies.
  Christopher Hitchens Nov. 10, 2008
  
• McCain's Shameful Slur The Republicans' appalling attack on Rashid Khalidi.
  Christopher Hitchens Nov. 3, 2008
  
• Sarah Palin's War on Science The GOP ticket's appalling contempt for knowledge and learning.
  Christopher Hitchens Oct. 27, 2008
  
• Speak Up! Stop covering Palin until she gives a press conference.
  Christopher Hitchens Oct. 20, 2008
  
• Vote for Obama McCain lacks the character and temperament to be president. And Palin is simply a disgrace.
  Christopher Hitchens Oct. 13, 2008
  
• How To Win Afghanistan's Opium War The best way to deprive the Taliban of drug profits? The United States should buy Afghanistan's poppy crop instead of trying to eradicate it.
  Christopher Hitchens Oct. 6, 2008
  
• Disregarding Henry Both candidates kowtowed to the disgraceful Kissinger. Only Obama cited him correctly. 
  Christopher Hitchens Sept. 28, 2008
  
• Is Obama Another Dukakis? Why is Obama so vapid, hesitant, and gutless?
  Christopher Hitchens Sept. 22, 2008
  
• Pakistan Is the Problem And Barack Obama seems to be the only candidate willing to face it.
  Christopher Hitchens Sept. 15, 2008
  
• The Best Woman? Don't patronize Sarah Palin.
  Christopher Hitchens Sept. 8, 2008
  
• Let Them Count Houses Can't we escape this tiresome demagoguery about candidates' income and property?
  Christopher Hitchens Sept. 1, 2008
  
• The Verbal Revolution How the Prague Spring broke world communism's main spring.
  Christopher Hitchens Aug. 25, 2008
  
• South Ossetia Isn't Kosovo Whatever Moscow says, there are at least six significant differences between the two situations.
  Christopher Hitchens Aug. 18, 2008
  
• Iraq's Budget Surplus Scandal Why do we have such a hard time hearing good news from Baghdad?
  Christopher Hitchens Aug. 10, 2008
  
• The Man Who Kept On Writing Alexander Solzhenitsyn lived as if there were such a thing as human dignity.
  Christopher Hitchens Aug. 4, 2008
  
• Oh, Lucky Man Why Obama's attitude on the surge hasn't harmed his campaign.
  Christopher Hitchens July 28, 2008
  
• Losing Sight of Progress How blind salamanders make nonsense of creationists' claims.
  Christopher Hitchens July 21, 2008
  
• The War Between the Wars Who says we can only face our enemies in one place at a time?
  Christopher Hitchens July 14, 2008
  
• Farewell to a Provincial Redneck Jesse Helms' stranglehold on U.S. foreign policy was a national embarrassment.
  Christopher Hitchens July 7, 2008
  
• Book Drive for Iraq How you can do your bit to build democracy.
  Christopher Hitchens June 30, 2008
  
• Mourning Glory The media goes overboard with "the Russert Miracles."
  Christopher Hitchens June 23, 2008
  
• The First Excuse Don't blame sexism for Hillary Clinton's defeat.
  Christopher Hitchens June 16, 2008
  
• The Lion Who Didn't Roar Why hasn't Nelson Mandela spoken out against Robert Mugabe?
  Christopher Hitchens June 9, 2008
  
• A Tale of Two Tell-Alls If you want to read a serious book about the intervention in Iraq, look to Douglas Feith.
  Christopher Hitchens June 2, 2008
  
• Wine Drinkers of the World, Unite You have nothing to lose but inflated bills and interrupted anecdotes.
  Christopher Hitchens May 26, 2008
  
• Question Time John McCain wants to bring British-style political grillings to Capitol Hill.
  Christopher Hitchens May 19, 2008
  
• Can Israel Survive for Another 60 Years? Perhaps, but not necessarily as a Jewish state.
  Christopher Hitchens May 12, 2008
  
• Are We Getting Two for One? Is Michelle Obama responsible for the Jeremiah Wright fiasco?
  Christopher Hitchens May 5, 2008
  
• One Angry Man Should we worry about John McCain's temper?
  Christopher Hitchens April 28, 2008
  
• Mandela Envy Is Robert Mugabe's lawless misrule founded in jealousy?
  Christopher Hitchens April 21, 2008
  
• Cardinals' Law Two questions for the pope.
  Christopher Hitchens April 14, 2008
  
• Obama Is No King Today, the national civil rights pulpit is largely occupied by second-rate shakedown artists.
  Christopher Hitchens April 7, 2008
  
• The Tall Tale of Tuzla Hillary Clinton's Bosnian misadventure should disqualify her from the presidency, but the airport landing is the least of it.
  Christopher Hitchens March 31, 2008
  
• Blind Faith The statements of clergymen like Jeremiah Wright aren't controversial and incendiary; they're wicked and stupid.
  Christopher Hitchens March 24, 2008
  
• Prince Valiant Britain's Prince Harry should've stayed in Afghanistan.
  Christopher Hitchens March 10, 2008
  
• Words Matter Cliché, not plagiarism, is the problem with today's pallid political discourse.
  Christopher Hitchens March 3, 2008
  
• The Serbs' Self-Inflicted Wounds With Kosovo independent, Yugoslavia is finally dead.
  Christopher Hitchens Feb. 22, 2008
  
• Truth and Consequences What is the point of a paper of record that decides the untarnished record is too much for readers?
  Christopher Hitchens Feb. 18, 2008
  
• To Hell With the Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams' dangerous claptrap about "plural jurisdiction."
  Christopher Hitchens Feb. 11, 2008
  
• Bushies to Human Rights Envoy: Shut Up In North Korea, it's almost impossible to separate nuclear policy from human rights.
  Christopher Hitchens Feb. 4, 2008
  
• Fool Me Thrice It should be no surprise that the Clintons are playing the race card.
  Christopher Hitchens Jan. 28, 2008
  
• Huck's Free Pass Why are the media ignoring Mike Huckabee's remarks about the Confederate flag?
  Christopher Hitchens Jan. 21, 2008
  
• The Case Against Hillary Clinton Why on earth would we choose to put the Clinton family drama at the center of our politics again?
  Christopher Hitchens Jan. 14, 2008
  
• Identity Crisis There's something pathetic and embarrassing about our obsession with Barack Obama's race.
  Christopher Hitchens Jan. 7, 2008