I attacked Dawkins's book on God because I think he is theologically illiterate.
Poetry is the most subtle of the literary arts, and students grow more ingenious by the year at avoiding it. If they can nip around Milton, duck under Blake and collapse gratefully into the arms of Jane Austen, a lot of them will.
Those who sentimentally indulge humanity do it no favours.
It is true that too much belief can be bad for your health.
Historical determinism is a recipe for political quietism.
I liked early Amis a lot, but I stopped reading him some time ago. I admire Hitchens on literary topics - I think he is very astute. McEwan, I read a bit. But I suppose it's more the ideological phenomenon that they represent together that interests me.