christopher hitchens and tony blair, who can forget the evening on religions impact on the world. henry kissinger, year ago today, was on the stage. eighty-two years of age, participating in his first public debate. eloquently arguing against china owning the 21st century. just a matter of months ago, larry summers and paul taubman went head-to-head in the future of the north american

christopher hitchens said she would take money from rich people -- and i said christopher, did you expect her po take it from the poor? on the middle class that battle wouldn't make sense to taketo money from the rich and give it to the poor? i don't quite understand that. what are we back to this again? we are going to play mr. clean? is everybody snow white at the table? mother theresa knew what she was doing. she founded the first hospicey. for aids patients in new york city. 27% of the entire world's funding for aids comes from one institution in the catholic church. we dohe many of the private soue cared of those stricken with aids.y lecre phobias and whatnot, you have a phobia cure spending money doing that kind of thing. the immigrants -- welcoming the stranger. look at the great work that has been done by catholic ethnics. e that is why it is despicable in our country today to see some people making their anti-latino comments. it is one thing about protecting our borders, but stop with jumping on the latinos. people are welcome here. you're not going to tell a priest, let me see w

have been particularly one i'm thinking of last year that was planned in places like -- by christopher hitchensand a small piece by chomsky on osama bin laden's assassination and it was slammed by "the weekly standard," some right wing magazines and slammed by slate. that is when a piece really landed. this piece didn't do that. this piece got posted by myriad sites but i think it's incumbent on us to try to get direct reaction so i sent it to friedman myself a few times, each time trying to be polite, just to sort of see, shucks i don't know if you saw it but it would be great if you read it and we would love a reaction. that is their policy. it does feel like fair is fair and we don't want to get too big of a platform to someone you disagree with but that the board -- the debate is more important than anything else. no response from friedman but, and i'm pretty sure i got it because all the wrong ones bounced and i tried all the different combinations of the time. but it was the left primarily as in the case of ignatieff book. there is a friedman fact check web site that wanted to reprint our

christopher hitchens and tony blair, who can forget the evening on religions impact on the world. henry kissinger, year ago today, was on the stage. eighty-two years of age, participating in his first public debate. eloquently arguing against china owning the 21st century. just a matter of months ago, larry summers and paul taubman went head-to-head in the future of the north american economy. it's entertaining and engaging as those were, they did not have the urgency of tonight's debate. last month, the unthinkable has become the thinkable when it comes to the future of europe. as early as next month, with the second greek elections, we can see greece choose to leave out of choice or necessity, the euro zone. many people have predicted that that could cause a catastrophic spike in the cost of the worlds largest nations, spain, italy, and a bank run throughout the euro zone. the result could be an implosion both politically and economically of the european union, it might include north america and the world. .. they do 23, and an advanced economy that is responsible for a quarter