E ver since the early 19th century, when Thomas Bruce, seventh earl of Elgin, sawed off and crowbarred many of the carvings ...

We should then have only to include the North in our confederacy . . . and we should have such an empire for liberty as she has never surveyed since the creation.— Thomas Jefferson writing to James ...

Christopher Hitchens was an Atlantic contributing editor and a Vanity Fair columnist. For nearly a dozen years, Christopher Hitchens contributed an essay on books each month to The Atlantic.

Gentlemen, John Rodden, Christopher Hitchens, thank for joining us on Think Tank. Let me start out, just sort of help our viewers. John and Christopher, why don’t you just tell me briefly what ...

Hitchens is envisioned as an establishment that celebrates the joy of connection, the thrill of intellectual discovery, and the art of indulgence.

The argument is simple and, as Hitchens put it, “unanswerable.” One of the great monuments of world culture—a temple garlanded with masterful carvings—the Parthenon was designed by Phidias ...

From a September 2023 entry in Air Mail. My dad, Tom Wolfe, delighted in defending his style of writing and had no qualms about throwing barbs at other writers. In… ...