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DESCRIPTION:CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS & CHRIS HEDGES \n“ IS GOD… GREAT?”  \nTwo of 
 America’s most passionate public intellectuals discuss the world’s most 
 divisive issue. Christopher Hitchens attacks all religions, while Chris 
 Hedges, who graduated from seminary at Harvard Divinity School, "...finds 
 meaning in the mystery and power of faith…”\n\nInformation: 
 510.848.6767x612   www.kpfa.org\nTickets $20 advance, $25 at door.  Tickets 
 on line: www.kpfa.org/events/Hitchens \n\nAvailable also at Analog Books, 
 Black Oak Books, Cody’s, \nDiesel a Bookstore, Global Exchange, Moe’s, 
 Pegasus, Pendragon, Walden Pond\nIn San Francisco: Modern Times\nEvent 
 benefits listener-sponsored KPFA Radio. Co-sponsored by Cody’s Books and 
 Zaytuna Institute.\n\nChristopher Hitchens is a well known author, 
 journalist, and literary critic, noted for his  iconoclastic wit, outspoken 
 atheism and anti-theism, fiery political temperament, and staunch 
 anti-fascism— not to mention a dramatic abandoning of the progressive 
 left. He has written for The Nation, Vanity Fair, Harper’s Magazine, 
 Slate, The Atlantic, and Free Inquiry. Hitchens now lives in Washington 
 D.C., writes prolifically, teaches frequently at the New School, and 
 appears often on television opinion forums.\n\nHis books include:\nGod Is 
 Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything \nThomas Paine's "Rights of 
 Man": A Biography\nA Long Short War: The Postponed Liberation of Iraq\nWhy 
 Orwell Matters\nThe Trial of Henry Kissinger\nBlaming the Victims: Spurious 
 Scholarship & the Palestinian Question (with Edward Said)\nThe Missionary 
 Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice\n\nChris Hedges, author of 
 American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War On America is a 
 journalist and author predominantly involved in American and Middle Eastern 
 politics and society. He spent nearly two decades as a foreign 
 correspondent in Central America, the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans, 
 reporting from more than fifty countries while working for The Christian 
 Science Monitor, National Public Radio, The Dallas Morning News and The New 
 York Times. Hedges was part of the New York Times’ team that won the 2002 
 Pulitzer Prize for coverage of global terrorism, and he received the 2002 
 Amnesty International Global Award for Human Rights Journalism. The son of 
 a Presbyterian minister, Hedges has a Master of Divinity from Harvard 
 University. He currently writes for numerous publications including Foreign 
 Affairs, Harper’s Magazine, The New York Review of Books, Granta and 
 Mother Jones. In addition, he is currently a senior fellow at The Nation 
 Institute in New York City and a Lecturer in the Council of the Humanities 
 and the Anschutz Distinguished Fellow at Princeton University.\n\nHis books 
 include: \nAmerican Fascists: The Christian Right and the War On 
 America\nWar Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning\n  Losing Moses on the 
 Freeway\n\nThis public discussion will be introduced and moderated by Sasha 
 Lilley, formerly co-host of Against the Grain, presently KPFA’s  Interim 
 Program Director, \n\n#\n\n\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/04/22/18403800.php
SUMMARY:Christopher Hitchens and Chris Hedges Discuss "Is God Great?"
LOCATION:King Middle School, 1781 Rose St, Berkeley
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/04/22/18403800.php
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