November 26th is the day that Christopher Hitchens and Tony Blair will
debate the following resolution:
Be it resolved, religion is a force of good for the world
If one should wonder whether Hitchens will be well enough, given the intensity of the cancer treatment that he is undergoing, here is an update in this report in the
Guardian:
Whatever his health regime, it doesn't appear to have affected his work levels. The pugnacious weekly Slate column, the far-reaching literary essays for the Atlantic Monthly, and the Vanity Fair dispatches are all filed on time. And he continues to participate in public debates. Last month in New York he sliced through the Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan's problematising evasions with stinging precision, and later this month he's taking on Tony Blair in Toronto.
The debate begins at 7:00 pm Toronto time. Should be an interesting one. I hope
a former student, who is now pursuing graduate studies in philosophy in Toronto, will attend the debate; but, I bet the event was sold out long time ago. Well, I would rather that she focused on her term papers :)
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