He will come to feel increasingly like a member of the audience in the theater of his own illness. I've been there. ... Dying isn't so bad. It's getting sick and dying that's the hard part. I had ...

Graydon Carter, Martin Amis, Salman Rushdie, and Sean Penn were all part of today's celebration in honoring one of the sharpest minds and eloquent writers of a generation. Yeah, we know, Sean Penn ...

A generation ago, the New Atheists were all the rage. Sam Harris in “The End of Faith” (2004) and Christopher Hitchens in various essays drew a direct link between religious belief and the terrorist ...