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CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS says “Religion poisons everything.” The Old Testament is “a nightmare,” and the New Testament “exceeds the evil of the ‘old” one.” Religion doesn’t make people behave better, and Eastern religions are no better than the Western ones. You say religion might not [...]
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Today’s show features our Washingon political update from JOHN NICHOLS of The Nation, who says the Iraq war funding bill is “not a compromise, it’s a blank check. . . . The willingness of Pelosi and Reid to advance a measure that does not [...]
Today I’m out of town.
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HAROLD MEYERSON talks about the LAPD’s May Day riot in MacArthur Park, and the tide of troubles rising around George Bush—Harold is an op-ed columnist for the Washington Post and executive editor of The American Prospect.
Also: The “Frozen Chosen:” MICHAEL CHABON won the Pulitzer Prize for [...]
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ISRAEL: A PALESTINIAN VIEW. SARI NUSSEIBEH is a leading Palestinian intellectual and political figure, a long-time advocate of a two-state solution, and the PLO’s chief representative in Jerusalem in 2001. He is president of Al Quds University, the only Arab university in Jerusalem. His [...]