Christopher Hitchens in conversation: The Only Subject is Love

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@jeantours9641
@jeantours9641 4 жыл бұрын
Transmitting the legacy of Christopher Hitchens is the reason why I will never fully hate KZbin
@josephno1347
@josephno1347 4 жыл бұрын
It's pretty neutral (KZbin) stop being a hater drama queen
@user.--.
@user.--. 4 жыл бұрын
@@josephno1347 Sure it is.....
@josephno1347
@josephno1347 4 жыл бұрын
Your abuse of language marks you a zealot
@user.--.
@user.--. 3 жыл бұрын
@@josephno1347 Sure it does.
@michaelhamilton1357
@michaelhamilton1357 3 жыл бұрын
As a deep respecter of Christofer your words would delight him and so very resonate with me. Thank you.
@tl6690
@tl6690 3 жыл бұрын
We lost a great man 10 years ago today. You'll never be forgotten. RIP Hitch!
@mugsofmirth8101
@mugsofmirth8101 2 жыл бұрын
LOL he was just a clump of cells like the rest of us. Get over it
@zaknefain100
@zaknefain100 Жыл бұрын
@@mugsofmirth8101 Ah yeah.. well some lumps of cells are more a waste of space and oxygen than others. mugs of cells... wasted cells.
@majorfeelgoodrecords2740
@majorfeelgoodrecords2740 Жыл бұрын
I love his wonderful mind 🎼🤘🏻
@zeldagoblin
@zeldagoblin 11 ай бұрын
I look at the world events unfolding, home and abroad, and am so very often reminded of his words in "free speech", 2006. Crystallized evermore in my nightmares of what lies ahead.
@2Worlds_and_InBetween
@2Worlds_and_InBetween 10 ай бұрын
... something greater than the sum of it's parts
@danielcolehour6454
@danielcolehour6454 Жыл бұрын
Such an amazing orator. Such an amazing intellect. Such an amazing listener. Such a wonderful human being. I miss him every day.
@carolynschneiderman4576
@carolynschneiderman4576 11 ай бұрын
Now, more than ever! I weep for Hitchens and for our grievous need for him today.
@forensix78
@forensix78 9 ай бұрын
I mourn him.
@Ma1q444
@Ma1q444 7 ай бұрын
What’s intelligence about him
@Taegreth
@Taegreth 5 ай бұрын
@@Ma1q444 I think you're trying to ask "What's intelligent about him?". Listen to what he says in the video and you'll know.
@RalphHodges-fh1nf
@RalphHodges-fh1nf 5 ай бұрын
​@@carolynschneiderman4576po ft by by😂 by by O9
@mbellizia75
@mbellizia75 2 жыл бұрын
This guy opened my eyes to so much. Ill never stop hanging on his words or feeling such sadness that he's gone.
@renupathak4442
@renupathak4442 3 жыл бұрын
Hitch was 24 carat gold. The world has lost a treasure. I am from India and can't think of anyone more conversant with the English language than Christopher
@beatles4ever156
@beatles4ever156 5 жыл бұрын
It's a shame this was only allowed to go on for 36 minutes. Hitchens was prepared to talk all night and I would have sat and listened to every single word. Christopher Hitchens was the voice of our time.
@DarkSpade87
@DarkSpade87 2 жыл бұрын
Having Christopher Hitchens speak for only 36 minutes is like playing 90 seconds of Beethoven's 9th
@russianaloha4576
@russianaloha4576 2 жыл бұрын
He has an 7 & 1/2 hour audio book... He was truelly an amazing soul 💞
@mugsofmirth8101
@mugsofmirth8101 2 жыл бұрын
@@russianaloha4576 "an amazing soul" 😅😅😅 more like just a clump of cells (dead cells now) 😂
@mugsofmirth8101
@mugsofmirth8101 2 жыл бұрын
Hitchens was just another voice of the time when he lived which is long gone - just like the Beatles (most over rated band of all time) Now those clumps of cells are gone and only the least talented of them like Ringo remain.
@marcokalle2452
@marcokalle2452 Жыл бұрын
​@@MarjorainMDyou're wrong, Elvis ended up dead by drugging and eating himself to death, true story 😂
@manthasagittarius1
@manthasagittarius1 12 жыл бұрын
Oh, my word. He recites the Wilfred Owen poem here. I never heard this clip before. It makes me realize how much of this vast archive of Hitch's videos and written work there is yet for me to traverse.
@yomilalgro
@yomilalgro 5 жыл бұрын
Never ending
@davidhemsworth4098
@davidhemsworth4098 3 жыл бұрын
And what an incredible recitation. Theatrical.
@AdrianR0713
@AdrianR0713 3 жыл бұрын
I’ve been watching Hitchens for years and only today I found this treasure.
@vincemcmahonreadskoran3120
@vincemcmahonreadskoran3120 3 жыл бұрын
@@AdrianR0713 he died like any other human but w never really lost him because he lives on in many recorded public appearances from bookstores to auditoriums and television.
@matt5726
@matt5726 3 жыл бұрын
I also became moist... :)
@builderman55
@builderman55 2 жыл бұрын
I believe I have never in my 6 1/2 decades encountered a more incisive, layered, savagely brilliant mind than Hitchens'. Listening to him speak in any forum is like enjoying the most beautiful symphony or reading the most brilliant work of literature.
@scp170190
@scp170190 2 жыл бұрын
couldn't agree more. A peerless master of the English language
@trevorowen865
@trevorowen865 2 жыл бұрын
I am moved by hearing that poem read aloud ... wonderful and moving - a very passionate humanity
@mimiford7163
@mimiford7163 7 жыл бұрын
Hitch was one of kind. The world lost a treasure with his passing.
@zeljjko70766
@zeljjko70766 5 жыл бұрын
Indeed
@bert.hbuysse5569
@bert.hbuysse5569 4 жыл бұрын
He is still here. Fortunatly we will be able to hear and watch him for a long long time. He is not dead before we quit watching him.
@fervid5923
@fervid5923 4 жыл бұрын
@@bert.hbuysse5569 that's true, but I wanted to have his views on current affairs!😔
@bert.hbuysse5569
@bert.hbuysse5569 4 жыл бұрын
@@fervid5923 i agree my man.. dont forget the love bit !
@oldskeptic1513
@oldskeptic1513 4 жыл бұрын
@jazz keyboardist ... no Sir, you are wilfully ignoring the whole reasoning he had regarding the war in Iraq... it would serve you better to admit, that your religiosity has skewed your opinion of this man... the body of work he has left behind for posterity is commendable... what is it that you are living to humanity? ...
@rogerroger5649
@rogerroger5649 5 жыл бұрын
His voice and words are the brush and my ears and mind are the canvas. Listening to him paint brings tears to my minds eye. What a beautiful mastery of the understanding and use of the spoken word.
@yomilalgro
@yomilalgro 5 жыл бұрын
WOW, that was beautiful...
@shantih433
@shantih433 13 жыл бұрын
My favorite thing about him is that he won't be stopped or interrupted. The moment an interlocutor thinks Christopher is done talking and starts to move on, Hitch will come back with another thought or addendum to what he's already been saying without taking notice of the other person's words. He's got so much momentum. I love it.
@mugsofmirth8101
@mugsofmirth8101 2 жыл бұрын
He HAD momentum (mostly because of the wealthy financial/political interests backing him.
@hazeshi6779
@hazeshi6779 Жыл бұрын
I'm fairly certain Christopher held all the views he took, can you give an example?
@juliegreenan5289
@juliegreenan5289 8 ай бұрын
And without raising his voice, by mere presence
@acarnold
@acarnold 3 жыл бұрын
This is a gem of a discussion. Including a surprise poetry recitation by Hitchens himself! (She’s also a fabulous interviewer for Hitchens)
@mhbh19
@mhbh19 Жыл бұрын
I mean, hello???? There is definitely some professional and good faith flirting going on!
@nogodism
@nogodism 12 жыл бұрын
He "lost" his voice for only some 36 hours. He was the best speaker, writer and undefeated debater since Robert G Ingersoll. His stand for free expression was courageous and exemplary. He put his life at risk to shelter Sir Salman Rushdie against Islamist death threats. And his famously pugilistic debating style co-existed with a personal graciousness that his enemies rarely acknowledge and never reciprocate.
@DoomerMarc
@DoomerMarc 5 жыл бұрын
Acknowledging that Hitchens is a master, I have viewed a debate between he an Michael Parenti where Parenti was the clear winner.
@DoomerMarc
@DoomerMarc 4 жыл бұрын
Hitchens was defending the indefensible, the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan.
@douglasmilton2805
@douglasmilton2805 4 жыл бұрын
@nogodism That last sentence of yours is very well said.
@sobriquet5016
@sobriquet5016 4 жыл бұрын
@@douglasmilton2805 Agreed. Was about to comment the same sentiment. VERY well said.
@douglasmilton2805
@douglasmilton2805 4 жыл бұрын
@@sobriquet5016 Thank you. One of the many things I liked about Hitchens was the fact that even when arguing with people he clearly detested (Anne Widdecombe for example) he never descended to vulgar abuse and always maintained that basic politeness without which any real debate is impossible. There's not much of that around on KZbin these days - which makes your reply all the more welcome!
@axl170
@axl170 14 жыл бұрын
This is an extraordinary interview. Wonderful, eloquent testimony to the incomparable power that literature, irony and examination have to enrich one's life. Everything from the poetic quotation in the beginning to the final physics speculation at the end speaks of the expansive, rich and open mind that reposes in Christopher Hitchens. Religious dogma can't even hold a candle to this kind of spiritual and mental richness.
@mdflorida1233
@mdflorida1233 9 ай бұрын
We’re all human, equally deserving of love, respect, dignity and understanding.
@jublicqohnp.61
@jublicqohnp.61 5 жыл бұрын
Hitch was utterly brilliant.
@EdLuhrs
@EdLuhrs 8 жыл бұрын
Great to hear Hitchens recite the Wilfred Owen poem, and to hear him converse at length in a warm, friendly way - wonderful discussion.
@Lopfff
@Lopfff 6 жыл бұрын
Hitch was on top of his game here. His wit seems to come out even more than usual when he’s being interviewed by a friend. God, can you imagine what it must have been like to hang out with him?
@yomilalgro
@yomilalgro 5 жыл бұрын
I could only imagine...
@vipulprakash1987
@vipulprakash1987 2 жыл бұрын
God tried to stay as much away as possible. Hitch wrote a book, "god is not Great".
@MrJayehawk
@MrJayehawk 3 жыл бұрын
I've said this many times before - Hitch is one of the very few people that I never knew personally that I miss dearly now that he's gone.
@TheWesternunionman
@TheWesternunionman 3 жыл бұрын
Perhaps alongside Nelson Mandela.??
@thedoggieinnlisaannestella3478
@thedoggieinnlisaannestella3478 2 жыл бұрын
I feel like I’ve lost a dear friend by never meeting him or hearing him speak🥺
@vidkidz83
@vidkidz83 2 жыл бұрын
Me too 💔
@darrylschultz9395
@darrylschultz9395 2 жыл бұрын
@@vidkidz83 Me three.🤓
@moonbeamchaos
@moonbeamchaos 12 жыл бұрын
I will always miss him. It's so awful to know HOW he died, almost more so than the FACT that he died. For him to lose, of all things, his ability to SPEAK. I'm so glad he could still write, but I'm grateful to You Tube for the ability to hear him still.
@rikwarren3999
@rikwarren3999 Жыл бұрын
this was the most erudite interviews of Hitchens I have watched. Wonderful!
@willharding8445
@willharding8445 11 жыл бұрын
Hitchens' ability for literary quotation never ceases to astound me, especially in regard to his lifelong friendship with Mr Johnny Walker! Great reading of a great poem.
@reason5591
@reason5591 4 жыл бұрын
Why bring that up? Senseless
@cheekynpc8267
@cheekynpc8267 4 жыл бұрын
@@reason5591 Because any other person wouldnt be able to remember what they had for breakfast with a friendship like that.
@MarjorainMD
@MarjorainMD 4 жыл бұрын
Indeed, the breakfast of champions! Accept no substitute.
@manthasagittarius1
@manthasagittarius1 3 жыл бұрын
Richard Burton could do the same thing -- beautiful, theatrically sensitive recitations completely under the influence. It's one kind of brain and the mind it produces.
@StoodersFam
@StoodersFam 3 жыл бұрын
And its Jim Walker.......when you know him as well as I do
@geraldosborn6365
@geraldosborn6365 2 жыл бұрын
I have watched this a number of times and learn something with each viewing. It is one of the most informed interviews of Christopher Hitchens I have ever watched. How fortunate for the faculty & students that Dr. Laurie Patten is now the President of Middlebury College.
@MarjorainMD
@MarjorainMD Жыл бұрын
Well said Gerald, Dr Laurie knew how to stimulate the mind of the great Hitch even further, she was brilliant too. As a long life Hitch’s admirer since his 1980’s C-Span, this is the very best interview of Christopher I know of, she definitely brought out his best.
@geraldosborn6365
@geraldosborn6365 Жыл бұрын
@@MarjorainMD Thank You Alain. All the Best to you!
@brianmcgregor7778
@brianmcgregor7778 4 жыл бұрын
I am glad to have lived during this brilliant mans lifetime!
@darrylschultz9395
@darrylschultz9395 2 жыл бұрын
Me too.
@darrylschultz9395
@darrylschultz9395 2 жыл бұрын
Me three!
@lewissmith6994
@lewissmith6994 Жыл бұрын
The greatest orator who ever lived
@garyfoster3854
@garyfoster3854 2 ай бұрын
Can’t really say that unless you’ve heard them all.
@ianwebb3496
@ianwebb3496 2 жыл бұрын
How about some kudos for the interlocutor? Well-prepared to question her subject with properly-informed questions and more than capable of introducing ideas of her own without intruding on the subject's space to develop his chains of thought. Good job!
@jv-lk7bc
@jv-lk7bc 2 жыл бұрын
great job ... as Hitch himself acknowledged in severalways..
@jkencrozier8690
@jkencrozier8690 2 жыл бұрын
:-):-).,
@bradlii
@bradlii Жыл бұрын
Yes, absolutely… Dr. Patton was 100% tracking with him while directing a very interesting and insightful conversation. What a brilliant woman.
@pjs835
@pjs835 Жыл бұрын
She did an amazing job. Her students are lucky to have her
@mikecarter9673
@mikecarter9673 7 ай бұрын
Absolutely agree!
@nightowl6260
@nightowl6260 4 жыл бұрын
I so admire that the interviewer maintained her authority and didn't miss a beat when Hitchens was flirtatious.
@isaacfox4222
@isaacfox4222 3 жыл бұрын
What do you mean by authority
@judepower4425
@judepower4425 3 жыл бұрын
@@isaacfox4222 Good question! I was wondering that too. Maybe Sky Lark meant she maintained her composure rather than any authority she would've found impossible to impose on Hitch anyway.
@isaacfox4222
@isaacfox4222 3 жыл бұрын
@@judepower4425 that’s what I’m thinking too!
@mbellizia75
@mbellizia75 3 жыл бұрын
Perhaps a little less "mm..yes..mm hmm..yeah...mm.. uh huh...mmmm" while he's speaking. very distracting.
@davidpryor5910
@davidpryor5910 2 жыл бұрын
This wonderful intellectual changed my life. for the better. Thank you Hitch
@acphenom
@acphenom 13 жыл бұрын
I've just paused it around 2 minutes in because I have to post this: I could listen to Hitchens all fuckin' day. God I hope he beats cancer.
@padrin0
@padrin0 14 жыл бұрын
Not only is Hitchens articulate, intelligent, thought-provoking and inspiring he is also so wonderfully charming as well :) The ladies all love the Hitch! :P
@yomilalgro
@yomilalgro 5 жыл бұрын
Absofreakinlutely!!!
@jaik195701
@jaik195701 3 жыл бұрын
Naomi Wolfe was all over him with her eyes in the feminism roundtable with Charlie Rose
@paulmelville2126
@paulmelville2126 3 жыл бұрын
Not just ladies, anyone who sees his handsome exterior and feels his inner beauty.
@shawnellemartineaux6212
@shawnellemartineaux6212 2 жыл бұрын
Yup. Charismatic man he was! Absolutely enthralling.
@phasespace4700
@phasespace4700 2 жыл бұрын
@@shawnellemartineaux6212 Yeah...cheerleading for America's genocide in Iraq and lying around the clock are very endearing traits.
@mongobobo
@mongobobo 14 жыл бұрын
"we too can be offended" There should of been a big round of applause following that statement. You can see here how deep the tolerance of the intolerant has infected our collective psyche.
@mojopeep326
@mojopeep326 2 жыл бұрын
And look at us now…
@angusrocks6464
@angusrocks6464 2 жыл бұрын
*should have or should've
@DanielLutz-et6is
@DanielLutz-et6is 2 ай бұрын
Hitches respect for Rushdie opened my eyes to this man’s genius
@thenouveauclinic
@thenouveauclinic Жыл бұрын
I wish I had knowlingly followed him during his hayday. I miss his contributions; often I have played and replayed many of these KZbins to remind myself that one can rise above and carry the standard of truth and dignity.
@lizzieh5284
@lizzieh5284 3 жыл бұрын
I wish Hitch was still with us. He would have a lot to say about the state of the world. He was one if a kind.
@hansvetter8653
@hansvetter8653 2 жыл бұрын
As a german & european i have to admit that there is no interlectual public figure left in europe who draws such a clear & clean line for the freedom of the individual.
@magneto44
@magneto44 2 жыл бұрын
none left in the Americas either, just Stone Age tribal nonsense everywhere
@MorgansDad
@MorgansDad 2 жыл бұрын
Yes
@lejlanuhanovic5700
@lejlanuhanovic5700 3 жыл бұрын
today marks 10 years since his passing. it's an incredibly sad day
@foadghavami2004
@foadghavami2004 2 жыл бұрын
Every time listen and watch you Christopher, miss you more to talk about all those lovely subjects to us, literature & art in all forms.
@punhoss
@punhoss 12 жыл бұрын
this woman is in awe and it shows
@tfcullen1307
@tfcullen1307 3 жыл бұрын
You could see early on that she was taken. His foreplay comment...her blush....only confirmed.. Lovely
@kutlulynx
@kutlulynx 3 жыл бұрын
We all are in awe!!!
@AHPMB
@AHPMB 14 жыл бұрын
Hitchens brings out his omnipresent plastic cup, no doubt filled to the brim with Johnny Walker Black. Gotta love Hitch.
@ntrout3992
@ntrout3992 4 жыл бұрын
It’s a relief to have a good interviewer
@punhoss
@punhoss 12 жыл бұрын
Because he is at the absolute pinnacle of his game. . .
@harrypalmer3481
@harrypalmer3481 3 жыл бұрын
- A truly lovely conversation. I'm so glad this is available to watch, thank you.
@TennisCoachno1
@TennisCoachno1 12 жыл бұрын
fantastic interview. what i also like is that the responses on a hitchens video (generally) are much more eloquent and articulate than a lot of the ass gravy on youtube, a toast to you all for reveling in this gargantuan intellect's life, rip hitch!
@yomilalgro
@yomilalgro 5 жыл бұрын
Cheers!
@rabbitshirt
@rabbitshirt Жыл бұрын
At 29:20, when she interrupts to say they have to wrap it up and he starts with "I've hardly got my pants off." 😂 Perfect flirtation for the next few seconds. ❤
@29008000
@29008000 3 жыл бұрын
“Never mind Jesus of Nazareth. Stars had to die so you could sit here.”
@gaylawebster-chewning3233
@gaylawebster-chewning3233 2 жыл бұрын
…but, I have to wonder if they’re one in the same…🎶”love, love, love”🎶
@maxgeorge1463
@maxgeorge1463 Ай бұрын
@@gaylawebster-chewning3233me when idiots humor unfettered conspiracy instead of accepting the objective truth provided by theoretical astrophysics:😐
@ZachRose88
@ZachRose88 11 жыл бұрын
Haha I love the casual flirting; coupled with intelligent discussion, what more can you ask for?
@yomilalgro
@yomilalgro 5 жыл бұрын
That's my definition of sexy
@badgerbush3556
@badgerbush3556 3 жыл бұрын
What more could one ask for? Another hour of the same? Hahahaha ❤️👍
@desertrose8183
@desertrose8183 3 жыл бұрын
Sapiosexual ♡
@TheConqueror009
@TheConqueror009 2 жыл бұрын
He was a socialite
@lisahbeauregard2341
@lisahbeauregard2341 2 жыл бұрын
Christopher Hitchens. I will never forget. Taught reality against those who taught against it. Never forgotten. Thank you for teaching what you did for the little time you spent on earth. RiP
@acetate909
@acetate909 5 жыл бұрын
@12:42 This was recorded a year before Hitch died. He most likely had already been diagnosed. Listening to him choke up when he said "cancer" while reciting that poem was so heart breaking.
@jublicqohnp.61
@jublicqohnp.61 5 жыл бұрын
He was diagnosed a few months later after falling seriously ill in NYC while promoting Hitch 22, which makes his reference to cancer in his remarks both heart breaking and chilling.
@fifth_elephant
@fifth_elephant 12 жыл бұрын
Hitchens first love is the written word, this alone could be the reason for his love of such poetry and lets not forget that he has recited religious poems too with such admiration as well as admiring the way in which the King James Bible was written too. You can still appreciate a good piece of writing even if you don't agree with the subject matter.
@yomilalgro
@yomilalgro 5 жыл бұрын
Absolutely
@roshankaul1008
@roshankaul1008 4 жыл бұрын
Exhilarating! The genius of Christopher Hitchens is spellbinding.
@juliegreenan5289
@juliegreenan5289 8 ай бұрын
having time and space to find every recording of Christopher Hitchens that I can. This is a man. Unafraid to be vulnerable, convicted. Unafraid to show his scholarship, his deep learning. He had such a gift, which cannot have come only from genes, education, study. So, from whence?
@Paine137
@Paine137 7 ай бұрын
He had an instinct and urge for thinking and doubting and writing, and then spent decades crafting and refining his points of view and style. That’s from whence.
@derekddurbin
@derekddurbin 2 жыл бұрын
I have searched and watched almost every video and page by Christopher and I’ve never seen this. What a jewel.
@Hominid00inthemirrow
@Hominid00inthemirrow 8 жыл бұрын
i can`t put into words how much i enjoyed this, it was to short.
@sibengerard1856
@sibengerard1856 4 жыл бұрын
short but Hitch was here at the height of his powers.
@sassypants7581
@sassypants7581 4 жыл бұрын
Yes!
@sassypants7581
@sassypants7581 4 жыл бұрын
@Rick York - You must be a Christian, that's the only ppl who call names. Good job👍😎
@reason5591
@reason5591 4 жыл бұрын
Too
@sassypants7581
@sassypants7581 4 жыл бұрын
@@reason5591 - If you're looking for.. exact, it's "too". You know darn-good & well that uppercase "T" is wrong 😎
@jameswest8280
@jameswest8280 Жыл бұрын
Can we talk about the courage this gentleman had.
@dianahill7239
@dianahill7239 4 жыл бұрын
What Christopher Hitchens says about 28 minutes is Awesome and his Humor creates smiles.
@joesikic6531
@joesikic6531 3 жыл бұрын
To find new Hitchens videos I have to go further back in time
@joescott8877
@joescott8877 2 жыл бұрын
I came for the recitation of "Dulce et Decorum Est," stayed for the magnificent rest! Hitchens said he often becomes "moist" (!) when reciting Owen's searing indictment of glib patriotism. I also often do when I read it. Or hear it read, like here. Like now.
@vjwebster
@vjwebster 14 жыл бұрын
two Brilliant minds - a real treat!
@shabirmagami146
@shabirmagami146 Жыл бұрын
one of the best discussions on internet...period. what a speaker!!! genius!!!
@benjaminjeffery6873
@benjaminjeffery6873 2 жыл бұрын
“What?! I hardly got my pants off” 😂
@alexeifando747
@alexeifando747 3 жыл бұрын
I left a district pleasure listening to and learning from this thoughtful conversation. Wow.
@markaaron9957
@markaaron9957 11 жыл бұрын
Bravo Emory, I've Googled you and now I have something positive to say about Georgia.
@allenanderson6592
@allenanderson6592 12 жыл бұрын
"I Hardly got my pants off...Tell them they don't understand foreplay." Hilarious.
@RandomVidz690
@RandomVidz690 4 жыл бұрын
A common quip of his. I've heard him say this in several different videos
@Jimeo722
@Jimeo722 3 жыл бұрын
@@RandomVidz690 Scintillating and amusing then. He'd be cancelled for saying that today, only a decade or so later. As he predicted, perhaps unwittingly, in his remarks beginning at about 21 minutes, the clocks have since struck thirteen.
@George.Andrews.
@George.Andrews. 3 жыл бұрын
I like this woman's demeanor and intellect even John Thomas was listening.
@woodytheduke
@woodytheduke 3 жыл бұрын
so amazing when he is asked a multidimensional question he always answers it in reverse.
@westlacson1
@westlacson1 12 жыл бұрын
11:00 for an absolutely amazing recitation. Completely arresting.
@kevinetheridge7201
@kevinetheridge7201 8 жыл бұрын
Thanks for uploading a really beautiful interview bringing out the best in hitch
@liam1neely
@liam1neely 14 жыл бұрын
At position 18:20 Hitchens says: "if you can speak, you can write." Of course HE is one of a very few who can speak with such flawless eloquence that a transcription would require no editing at all before appearing in a scholarly journal. This is certainly an art aspire to.
@yomilalgro
@yomilalgro 5 жыл бұрын
And I do
@jameshogan6142
@jameshogan6142 2 жыл бұрын
If you can speak, you can write. Hitch clearly doesn't know much about being dyslexic.
@russmarkham2197
@russmarkham2197 2 жыл бұрын
I share his reverence for the natural world
@michaeltellurian825
@michaeltellurian825 4 жыл бұрын
I can barely hear this and I have my system and player volume at the highest setting. If the furnace comes on, I can't hear it at all. I've been experiencing this more and more lately and I'm guessing that video producers are catering to the phone viewers wearing earplugs, not considering anyone else. But one can always turn down the volume, but not the other way around. Also, I anticipate someone questioning my hearing. It's fine.
@danmccumber5462
@danmccumber5462 Жыл бұрын
No one else is going to smirk along with Hitch as he totally throws the ultimate game on this very lovely and professional hostess here while also captivating us all. What a legend
@mossden
@mossden 2 жыл бұрын
Here’s hoping for a full recovery for Salman Rushdie currently in intensive care after knife attack ❤️
@Elaina43
@Elaina43 14 жыл бұрын
Thank you for posting this. The depth and breadth of this discourse while remaining accessible is remarkable, exhilarating, and inspiring. I've not read as much as I should; but worse, I've not thought about what I have read. E-
@SheaSF
@SheaSF 11 жыл бұрын
My interest in hearing the late, great man forces me to continue. Dr. Patton is speaking in such intimate tones, it is clear that she's completely obsessed. They did had "lunch" together. :)
@dafinker3443
@dafinker3443 3 жыл бұрын
Hopefully these records will. Live On. ❤️
@IamKlaus007
@IamKlaus007 2 жыл бұрын
The way he expressed himself in all his orations was a living example for others, that, acquiring knowledge by being curious, investigsting relevant sources and understanding the acquired learning is never beyond ANY individual. His eloquent narratives spoke of his committment to learning all he could in whatever time he had on this Earth. His enduring passion gave life to whatever he presented, in much the same way a turbo charger gives life to a naturally aspirated engine. He is a role model for all those who have an audacious courage to question things that present themselves as, 'beyond question'. I can't begin to comprehend the courage it would have taken Christopher Hitchens to take his newly acquired collection of thoughts into the world and publicly challenge those elements that believe themselves to be above question. My hat is off to a brilliant man and may many more take up his sword making the path he created even wider and easier to travel on.
@ciarangallagher91
@ciarangallagher91 12 жыл бұрын
I think you're right, it is a contradiction. If you haven't already it's worth reading his memoir, Hitch -22, which takes its central theme from struggles and rewards of living with contradictions and being a 'divided self'. The most disturbing thought to me on reading that poem, is that I cannot even fully absorb the misery of one victim and one witness who were barely atoms in a global struggle. Yet if I wish to live as an internationalist I cannot evade making judgements on war and peace.
@DouglasGross6022
@DouglasGross6022 5 жыл бұрын
I wonder if anyone would be kind enough to clean up the audio and repost this video. It would be very nice to hear Hitchens speaking - clearly - in this relaxed way, especially since he's now gone.
@reason5591
@reason5591 4 жыл бұрын
After all this was placed here by the host university itself. You would have thought it would have been checked out prior to posting. Cmon Emery wth
@markreierstad2418
@markreierstad2418 3 жыл бұрын
Wow! He recited the whole Owen poem from memory. I've read it several times over the years, but I doubt i could recite it easily. I wish I had that memory.
@space.youtube
@space.youtube 2 жыл бұрын
Chapeau Dr Laurie Patton and Hitch 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
@stevedalzell9258
@stevedalzell9258 4 жыл бұрын
Christopher Hitchens is the man that talks complete sense in all religious doctrines and totally destroys any stupid belief! I wish he was alive to argue these topics today
@MrZemme
@MrZemme 12 жыл бұрын
"Tell them they don't understand foreplay... look at that colour, isn't it beautiful?" And that's how you flirt ladies and gentlemen.
@terrypussypower
@terrypussypower 4 жыл бұрын
Nowadays the #metoo "movement" would condemn Hitchens flirtation as "sexual harrassment".
@reason5591
@reason5591 4 жыл бұрын
@@terrypussypower no more than your distasteful choice of your user name
@terrypussypower
@terrypussypower 4 жыл бұрын
@@reason5591 What's "distasteful" about my username? The fact you would say that betrays your own dirty mind, because you instantly go to that dirty place in YOUR psyche. So, your reply is simply showing the inside of YOUR own distasteful mind! Not that it's any of your business, but my user name is my DJ name that I have been known by for 30 years! The name was thought up by my brother's ex girlfriend. So take it up with her. Her name is Frances McKee and she's in a band called The Vaselines. Nirvana covered a few of her tunes, so she's not hard to find online!
@terrypussypower
@terrypussypower 4 жыл бұрын
@Greg Brown That's not always the case. When the fundamentals are fundamentally twisted and barbaric, like say....Islam, for instance, then extremists are simply following the fundamentals of that particular ideology. In fact, extremists are very useful in filleting out the white noise of apologists of any ideology, and getting to the roots of the problems their particular belief system present to the rest of society. That's why they're called "fundamentalists" in the first place! If the fundamentals of a belief system are truly benign, then extremists present no problem to anyone. In fact, the more extreme they are, the less of a problem they are to the rest of us!
@davidroach8277
@davidroach8277 4 жыл бұрын
Terrypussypower...seems like somebody has hit a nerve with you 😂. Crap DJ name as well I think.
@christiananderson4909
@christiananderson4909 3 жыл бұрын
I had the same reaction to "Dulce et Decorum est." Certain poems and literature can really change your life.
@micatnight2010
@micatnight2010 3 жыл бұрын
Incredible. I posted the whole text of the poem. I'd never heard it before. KIA a week before the Armistice. Wow.
@anniebeeee
@anniebeeee 3 жыл бұрын
So he loved Dulce et Decorum Est...Now I love very him even more...a masterpiece!
@snappycattimesten
@snappycattimesten 15 жыл бұрын
29:45 haha She blushed. The rubbing of the hands says it all really...
@iainrae6159
@iainrae6159 4 жыл бұрын
Hitch's eloquence on' you tube' is needed,and appreciated, more than ever during the weeks, possibly months of virus lockdown'.
@katherandefy
@katherandefy 2 жыл бұрын
By now years
@paullever2085
@paullever2085 3 жыл бұрын
Just an amazing man...
@jag1963
@jag1963 2 жыл бұрын
Wonderful humanist. Honest and decent man. Let's hope his legacy helps to change the world in moving on from the nonsense of religion.He was British but loved the American experiment. I'm glad he's not around to see the way it's been betrayed recently.
@claudioveliz9834
@claudioveliz9834 4 ай бұрын
After all the regrets of his passing; that he's no longer here to write, and speak, we must also appreciate that he was amongst us when we were alive; that his works are not only available to us in literature, but that electronic technology was lucky enough to overlap in order to record his manner, his voice, that little sparkle in his eye. We are all fortunate, indeed.
@yesucansell2
@yesucansell2 2 жыл бұрын
He loved America more than many other Americans.
@Mike3303
@Mike3303 14 жыл бұрын
Dammit. I became an Emory student a year too late. Now, I'll never be able to see/meet Hitchens.
@sooper2dooper3
@sooper2dooper3 12 жыл бұрын
29:41 Wow!
@jvcyt298
@jvcyt298 4 жыл бұрын
Hitch would be very disappointed at the state of journalism today.
@reason5591
@reason5591 4 жыл бұрын
Hitchens would have vomited his guts up then hand it to the journalist on a plate
@diatplay
@diatplay 4 жыл бұрын
Rewatch the interview. He would have been energized, highly amused, absolutely horrified, and he would have entered the fray, laughing. Hitch is the guy fighting and pushing back against the kind of characters fighting JoJo Rabbit.
@diatplay
@diatplay 4 жыл бұрын
* fighting in the masterpiece, JoJo Rabbit. I am sad Hitchens died of cancer. It's far worse to die of boredom in a world dying from the same and a stifling lack of imagination. The greatest men and women won't let it happen. They'll introduce a little chaos and get us thinking again about what is tolerable reality and who we want to be as individuals and as a collective mankind
@QuinnieMae
@QuinnieMae 4 жыл бұрын
He would have been absolutely horrified at the current President of the US.
@MattSingh1
@MattSingh1 Жыл бұрын
@@QuinnieMae *He would've been repulsed by the January 6th fascist attacks on US democracy.*
@christopher-bj8de
@christopher-bj8de 8 жыл бұрын
What a memory !
@user-sy3dg1vk4x
@user-sy3dg1vk4x 2 жыл бұрын
CONGRATULATIONS 👏👏 FOR ORGANIZING SUCH A WONDERFUL EVENT.
@MovieMakingMan
@MovieMakingMan 2 жыл бұрын
Wonderful interviewer. She wasn’t phased when Hitchens used foreplay with an obvious reference to the lovely interviewer.
@patbonny1175
@patbonny1175 4 жыл бұрын
"Irony is the song of the bird who has grown to love the cage".
@davidbamgboye4148
@davidbamgboye4148 4 жыл бұрын
Mental Captivity is the ultimate form of slavery. A world held hostage by religion.
@orthocoinbitzantium1002
@orthocoinbitzantium1002 4 жыл бұрын
Religion is inevitable.
@tritrios
@tritrios 4 жыл бұрын
Wow, amazing quote
@Dubbadizzo86
@Dubbadizzo86 4 жыл бұрын
@jazz keyboardist If your goal is to persuade admirers of Hitchens to your way of thinking, you're not going to get very far by referring to him as "Chrissy", which tells me you're not actually interested in discussion, so much as you're interested in imposing your view on others because you believe yourself to be more morally benevolent. Only a person with an ego larger than his brain begins dialogue in this manner.
@smellymels17
@smellymels17 3 жыл бұрын
And the cage made of iron; irony complete!
@SkySpiral8
@SkySpiral8 4 жыл бұрын
I enjoy listening to Hitch, but ever since I had to transcribe 5 minutes of his speech I feel like saying "Enunciate! Please!" This audio is very quiet as well.
@seanmellows1348
@seanmellows1348 3 жыл бұрын
If only this had been two or three hours longer.
@AdrianR0713
@AdrianR0713 3 жыл бұрын
Fascinating conversation
@savethefrogs5595
@savethefrogs5595 2 ай бұрын
Is there a part2 to this? Looks like there might be based on the first image. WHO AMONGST YOU will go out and hunt down all the Hitchens videos that are out there because I need more! I love this interview in particular…. Such a different tenor than other interviewers. I love her and the interaction between them, Christopher hitchens was/is so amazing. How do we find more archival footage? Anyone out there … ladies, gentlemen, brothers, sisters, comrades, friends … have any idea how we go about this?
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