Christopher Hitchens is coming to Ames, on Halloween no less. From the linked site:
Christopher Hitchens is among the best-known controversial writers and critics in the media. He was a columnist for Vanity Fair, The Nation, and Slate. As a foreign correspondent and travel writer, he has written from more than sixty countries on all five continents. He is the only writer to have written from Iran, Iraq and North Korea since 2000. Hitchens is the author of the recently published God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, as well as Class and Nostalgia: Anglo-American Ironies, The Palestine Question, The Trial of Henry Kissinger, and A Long Short War: The Postponed Liberation of Iraq.
I guess I’d better get off my ass and go read his book.