A wartime lexicon.

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• The Iowa Scam The undemocratic caucuses are a terrible way to choose a presidential candidate.
  Christopher Hitchens Dec. 31, 2007
  
• Daughter of Destiny Benazir Bhutto, 1953-2007.
  Christopher Hitchens Dec. 27, 2007
  
• Deadly Disinterest Why has the Bush administration lost interest in North Korea?
  Christopher Hitchens Dec. 24, 2007
  
• This Is Not a Test It's perfectly reasonable to reject a candidate because of his religious views.
  Christopher Hitchens Dec. 17, 2007
  
• Abolish the CIA Destroying the interrogation tapes amounts to mutiny and treason.
  Christopher Hitchens Dec. 10, 2007
  
• Holy Nonsense Mitt Romney's windy, worthless speech.
  Christopher Hitchens Dec. 6, 2007
  
• Bah, Hanukkah The holiday celebrates the triumph of tribal Jewish backwardness.
  Christopher Hitchens Dec. 3, 2007
  
• Mitt the Mormon Why Romney needs to talk about his faith.
  Christopher Hitchens Nov. 26, 2007
  
• Something To Give Thanks For Good news from Iraq.
  Christopher Hitchens Nov. 19, 2007
  
• Norman Mailer Remembering the pint-size Jewish fireplug.
  Christopher Hitchens Nov. 11, 2007
  
• Isolationism Isn't the Answer Jihadists aren't in Afghanistan—or Iraq—because we are there.
  Christopher Hitchens Nov. 5, 2007
  
• Divide and Conquer The United States should be squeezing Turkey, not the other way around.
  Christopher Hitchens Oct. 29, 2007
  
• Defending Islamofascism It's a valid term. Here's why.
  Christopher Hitchens Oct. 22, 2007
  
• Prizing Doris Lessing The Nobel committee finally gets it right.
  Christopher Hitchens Oct. 15, 2007
  
• The Price of Freedom If the Dutch government abandons Ayaan Hirsi Ali, America should welcome her.
  Christopher Hitchens Oct. 8, 2007
  
• Maintained in China Burma's foul regime depends on Beijing.
  Christopher Hitchens Oct. 1, 2007
  
• Run, Al, Run If Gore wins the Nobel Peace Prize, will he run for president?
  Christopher Hitchens Sept. 24, 2007
  
• It Was Right To Dissolve the Iraqi Army We broke America's terrible habit of ruling by proxy through military regimes.
  Christopher Hitchens Sept. 17, 2007
  
• Islamism Goes Mainstream My evening with Tariq Ramadan.
  Christopher Hitchens Sept. 11, 2007
  
• So Many Men's Rooms, So Little Time Why men like Larry Craig continue to court danger in public places.
  Christopher Hitchens Sept. 1, 2007
  
• Which Iraq War Do You Want To End? We're fighting at least three of them.
  Christopher Hitchens Aug. 27, 2007
  
• God's Still Dead Mark Lilla doesn't give us enough credit for shaking off the divine.
  Christopher Hitchens Aug. 20, 2007
  
• Fighting the "Real" Fight Foolish myths about al-Qaida in Mesopotamia.
  Christopher Hitchens Aug. 13, 2007
  
• Brutality by the Bay Why did the Oakland police do so little about Your Black Muslim Bakery's thuggery?
  Christopher Hitchens Aug. 6, 2007
  
• God-Fearing People Why are we so scared of offending Muslims?
  Christopher Hitchens July 30, 2007
  
• The Galloway Papers Parliament's damning report about Saddam apologist George Galloway.
  Christopher Hitchens July 23, 2007
  
• Conrad's Heart of Darkness The decline and fall of Conrad Black.
  Christopher Hitchens July 16, 2007
  
• Physician, Heal Thyself Doctors are not immune to religious mania.
  Christopher Hitchens July 9, 2007
  
• Don't Mince Words The London car-bomb plot was designed to kill women.
  Christopher Hitchens July 2, 2007
  
• Look Forward to Anger It's impossible to satisfy "Rage Boy" and his ilk. It's stupid to try.
  Christopher Hitchens June 25, 2007
  
• Free Scooter Libby The case gets weirder by the day.
  Christopher Hitchens June 18, 2007
  
• Siege of Paris The creepy populism surrounding high-profile defendants.
  Christopher Hitchens June 11, 2007
  
• What's Next for Kurdistan? A question every American politician needs to address.
  Christopher Hitchens June 4, 2007
  
• The French Correction The principled new foreign minister shows how much France has changed of late.
  Christopher Hitchens May 28, 2007
  
• Peanut Envy The latest absurdities to emerge from Jimmy Carter's big, smug mouth.
  Christopher Hitchens May 21, 2007
  
• Faith-Based Fraud Jerry Falwell's foul rantings prove you can get away with anything if you have "Reverend" in front of your name.
  Christopher Hitchens May 16, 2007
  
• A Brave Woman Scorned The campaign against Shaha Riza is the nastiest character assassination I have ever seen.
  Christopher Hitchens May 14, 2007
  
• Partners in Crime Robert Dallek's new book reveals the depravity of the Nixon-Kissinger double act.
  Christopher Hitchens May 7, 2007
  
• A Loser's History George Tenet's sniveling, self-justifying new book is a disgrace.
  Christopher Hitchens April 30, 2007
  
• God Is Not Great What happens when a racket turns into a religion? Mormonism.
  Christopher Hitchens April 25, 2007
  
• Suck It Up After the shootings came an orgy of mawkishness, sloppiness, and false sentiment.
  Christopher Hitchens April 24, 2007
  
• A Hell of a Country Ali Allawi's new memoir shows Iraq's collapse was inevitable.
  Christopher Hitchens April 23, 2007
  
• Sliming Wolfowitz The World Bank president did nothing wrong.
  Christopher Hitchens April 17, 2007
  
• The French Reaction Le Pen rises again.
  Christopher Hitchens April 16, 2007
  
• The You Decade There's a new narcissistic pronoun in town.
  Christopher Hitchens April 9, 2007
  
• These Men Are "Peacemakers"? Ian Paisley and Gerry Adams make me want to spew.
  Christopher Hitchens April 2, 2007
  
• Mesopotamia Split? Considering Peter Galbraith's proposal for Iraq.
  Christopher Hitchens March 26, 2007
  
• So, Mr. Hitchens, Weren't You Wrong About Iraq? Hard questions, four years later.
  Christopher Hitchens March 19, 2007
  
• Blood and Oil Three cheers for Iraq's new hydrocarbon law.
  Christopher Hitchens March 12, 2007
  
• She's No Fundamentalist What people get wrong about Ayaan Hirsi Ali.
  Christopher Hitchens March 5, 2007
  
• A Kindler, Gentler Tory Party Whatever happened to Britain's Conservatives?
  Christopher Hitchens Feb. 27, 2007
  
• The War Within Islam The growing danger of the Sunni-Shiite rivalry.
  Christopher Hitchens Feb. 19, 2007
  
• Year of the Rat Hillary Clinton scurries away from her old line on Iraq.
  Christopher Hitchens Feb. 12, 2007
  
• Appointment in Mesopotamia Iraq's problems existed long before 2003.
  Christopher Hitchens Feb. 5, 2007
  
• Postcard From Macondo Forty Years of One Hundred Years of Solitude.
  Christopher Hitchens Jan. 29, 2007
  
• Guilty Bystanders Michael Devlin's neighbors make their excuses.
  Christopher Hitchens Jan. 22, 2007
  
• The Iraq Jinx How Bush is blowing our last chance.
  Christopher Hitchens Jan. 16, 2007
  
• Jefferson's Quran What the founder really thought about Islam.
  Christopher Hitchens Jan. 9, 2007
  
• Lynching the Dictator On Saturday morning, the United States helped to officiate at a human sacrifice.
  Christopher Hitchens Jan. 2, 2007