Christopher Hitchens’s battle with cancer has not shaken his atheism, said Mick Brown in the London Telegraph. The contrarian writer, 62, is now dealing with “stage four” esophageal cancer ...

The Shenandoah Valley was a spectacular place to spend Labor Day, even when rushing by car from Washington, D.C., to a public debate in Birmingham, Alabama.

For the past few years, Christopher Hitchens (never Chris -- I made that mistake exactly once) and I have been on an "atheist vs. rabbi" roadshow, debating the worth of religion and the reality of ...

What difference does it make if Francis Collins is a Christian and Christopher Hitchens is an atheist? Hitchens has cancer and Collins is working on individualized cancer treatments based on genetics.

WASHINGTON (RNS) Christopher Hitchens will be remembered as many things: an acerbic essayist, connoisseur of Scotch and cigarettes and roguish writer whose forceful pen was fueled by an imposing ...

The word went out on blogs, message boards, YouTube and Facebook: Noted atheist Christopher Hitchens has esophageal cancer and had canceled his book tour to begin treatment. Led largely by ...

Atheist Christopher Hitchens is again railing against Hanukkah: But at this time of year, any holy foolishness is permitted. And so we have a semiofficial celebration of Hanukkah, complete with ...