Iraq: Hitchens vs. Berkeley

http://webcast.berkeley.edu/events/details.html?event_id=26 ^

[S.A. Smith]

The Mario Savio Memorial Lecture features Christopher Hitchens in a free-wheeling discussion with author-journalist Adam Hochschild.

The topic of the lecture is "Fault Lines: Rights, Wrongs & Responsibilities in Iraq, Afghanistan, Israel, Palestine, and The Nation".

The event took place Thursday, November 21, 2002 at 7:30pm in the Pauley Ballroom, MLK Student Union.

Christopher Hitchens, recently resigned columnist for The Nation and the 2003 I.F. Stone Fellow at the UC Graduate School of Journalism, is the author of The Trial of Henry Kissinger, Letters to a Young Contrarian, The Mission Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice, and many other books and articles. He is known for his rapier wit, his commitment to human rights, and his ability to upset and offend people of all political persuasions.

Adam Hochschild is the prize-winning author of King Leopold's Ghost, The Mirror at Midnight: A South African Journey, The Unquiet Ghost: Russians Remember Stalin, and many other books and essays. He is the co-founder of Mother Jones Magazine, and teaches at the UC Graduate School of Journalism.

[S.A. Smith]

I don't know if I am doing this correctly, as I am a new poster to the forum. I've perused it a few times in the past and know that Christopher Hitchens has some admirers among you. If you follow Hitchens's travails but mostly triumphs vis-a-vis his former comrades of the left, then you must watch this video clip of a recent lecture he gave at UC Berkeley. It's about two hours long. Hang in there up to the question-and-answer section, which comes at the end; it's the most entertaining part. Enjoy.

[dwills]

what incorrectness are you concerned about?

i guess some might suggest that it not be in the news section, but i'm glad you put it here because i would've otherwise missed it

[Vidalia]

S.A. Smith, you have achieved stardom for posting.

Your award may or may not be in the mail.

As far as the Hitchins vs. Berkely goes, Chris Hitchens has more brain matter, basic and combined anthological knowledge that the entire campus of Berkeley in its aggregate.

Hitchens may be a Socialist of kind, but at the least he is an educated, and historically correct socialist.

His political knowledge of realms of deceit is deep seated.

Berkely is a poster child for consigned brain-death compared to Chris Hitchens...

[beckett]

mark for later

[Cold Heat]

Hitchens will raise the hair on my neck about 50% of the time. Ill' not go out of my way to read or watch him, but I have to admit that I sometimes find his words interesting. He says it well.

Wrong or right.

[Nogbad]

Bump

[Cold Heat]

What kind of BS is that?

[Cicero]

I see you managed to sign up tomorrow morning.

War is never pretty. But Saddam started the last one by invading Kuwait and threatening to invade Saudi Arabia, thus taking over almost all the oil in the Middle East.

And, I'm sorry to say, the Arabs have provoked this one, too.

[Cacique]

Bookmark bump

[SES1066]

... don't know if I am doing this correctly, ...

Fear not, you are amongst friends as well as some oddities that no one cares to look at too closely. Your 1st post looks good, now go and populate your profile so that we can know you better. We are, as you should be well able to guess, very unPC here, so post and reply and feel at home!

[billhilly]

Hitchens is all you say he is. I'm guessing it was the position of the left on booze and cigarettes that drove him over the line. It has happened before.

[SES1066]

I see you managed to sign up tomorrow morning.

S/he may be across the International Date Line. In this Internet world, we are talking to the future and to the past all at the same time. Interesting concept, no?

[TopQuark]

Thanks for the post.

Welcome to FR.

[KayEyeDoubleDee]

At the DoubleDee household, we especially like Hitchens b/c he always seems to be a bit drunk when he is in front of the camera.

[general_re]

Good post - welcome aboard. I've never had the opportunity to hear Hochschild speak at any length about anything, but it would be churlish of me if I didn't admit that King Leopold's Ghost is a really excellent book. Well worth the read...