Character Studies
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- December 2011
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21st Dec 2011
Czech Playwright-Turned-President Led Region to Right Path PRAGUE — In the summer of 1990, the newly elected president of Czechoslovakia, Vaclav…
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18th Dec 2011
In the past decade, Israel became less of an issue for the late Christopher Hitchens as a result of the…
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18th Dec 2011
Havel, who presided over a free Czechoslovakia, was tireless fighter against totalitarianism and oppression In 1985, then dissident and future…
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15th Dec 2011
My memories of Christopher Hitchens In February 2009, I attended a Hezbollah rally in Beirut with Christopher Hitchens. You could…
- October 2011
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13th Oct 2011
Frank Kameny (1925 – 2011) Made the Gay Rights Movement Happen. Frank Kameny never thought he would live to see what…
- September 2011
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3rd Sep 2011
Why is the world’s most-quoted Syria expert a flack for Bashar al-Assad? In February, Vogue magazine published one of the most notorious…
- August 2011
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16th Aug 2011
Hungary has made a hard turn to the political right, but Holocaust survivor Karl Pfeifer, who in three decades of…
- June 2011
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1st Jun 2011
Why does Nicholas Kristof continue to defend the charlatan Greg Mortenson? When Greg Mortenson—the Montana nurse who earned worldwide fame with…
- July 2010
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26th Jul 2010
In his memoir, Christopher Hitchens comes clean on gay love affairs past. In his vivid and deeply felt 1952 essay,…
About James
James Kirchick is a journalist and foreign correspondent currently based in Washington. He has reported from Southern and North Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia, across the European continent, and the Caucasus. He is a fellow with the Foreign Policy Initiative in Washington, D.C., a correspondent for The Daily Beast and is a columnist for Tablet. His first book, The End of Europe: Dictators, Demagogues and the Coming Dark Age is forthcoming from Yale University Press.
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