Christopher Hitchens explains the strongest motivation for writers:
Why did you choose to write a memoir?
I suppose the effect of becoming 60 on me was stronger than I thought it was going to be. I took it quite heavily and began to review my life a lot more than I had before.
Did you write the [...]

Senate candidate Terrence Wall, when asked about global warming during an interview on WVCY, said the Earth’s climate changed over billions of years. When the show opened up for phoned questions and comments, one caller said Wall was a hypocrite for saying the Earth was billions of years old when Wall said he believed in [...]

Christopher Hitchens wrote this week about the slaughter of the pigs in Egypt for Slate.  He observed the religious component to the hysteria:
Back in May, just as Egypt’s anti-porcine hysteria was gathering pace, there was a proposal from Sheik Ahmad Ali Othman, a senior advisory figure at the Ministry of Religious Endowments, that all pigs [...]