Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Christopher Hitchens vs. Bill and Hillary Clinton, Mother Teresa, Henry Kissinger, and God 1
Chapter 2 Hitchens and His Evangelical Critics as Philosophers 14
Chapter 3 Drink-Sodden Former Trotskyist Popinjay? 37
Chapter 4 Hitchens in Nine Debates 62
I Hitchens and Said vs. Lewis and Wieseltier: "The Scholars, the Media, and the Middle East" (1986) 62
II Hitchens and John Judis vs. Harry Biswanger and John Ridpath: "Capitalism vs. Socialism" (1986) 73
III Hitchens and Jesse Jackson vs. Hadley Arkes and Stephen Markman: "The death penalty should be abolished" (1997) 84
IV Hitchens vs. Hitchens at Conway Hall: "The abolition of Britain" (1999.) 87
V Hitchens, Alexander Pires, and Matt Brown vs. Glen Loury, Deroy Murdock, and Amy Margolius: "Should reparations be paid to the descendants of slaves?" (2001) 90
VI Hitchens and Stephen Fry vs. Ann Widdecombe and Archbishop John Oneiyaken: "The Catholic Church is a force for good in the world" (2009) 94
VII Hitchens vs. William Lane Craig: "Does God exist?" (2009) 97
VIII Hitchens vs. Hitchens in Grand Rapids: "Does God exist and is He great?" (2008) 105
IX Hitchens vs. Hitchens in Grand Rapids: "The Iraq War" (2008) 111
Chapter 5 What the Hell Happened? 114
Chapter 6 Remembering Christopher Hitchens 133
Acknowledgments 138
