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Title:   God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
Participants:   Christopher Hitchens
In conversation with Tim Rutten, Los Angeles Times columnist
Program Date:    6/4/2007
Program length:    1.5hr
Media Type:   MP3

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Podcast summary

"America's foremost literary pugilist" (Village Voice) offers an elegantly argued case against all religions.


Participant(s) Bio

Christopher Hitchens is the author of more than ten books, including God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything; A Long Short War: The Postponed Liberation of Iraq; Why Orwell Matters; The Trial of Henry Kissinger; and Letters to a Young Contrarian. He is a contributing editor to Vanity Fair, and has written prolifically for American and English periodicals, including The Nation, The London Review of Books, Granta, Harper's, The Los Angeles Times Book Review, New Left Review, Slate, The New York Review of Books, Newsweek International, The Times Literary Supplement, and The Washington Post. He is also a regular television and radio commentator.


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