The New Commandments: Hitchens, Paglia and Jacobs

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Recently, Toronto's Royal Ontario Museum invited three people to come up with their own version of the Ten Commandments, to help mark the ROM's continuing exhibit of the Dead Sea Scrolls.

Christopher Hitchens is a columnist, author and critic. His book, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, makes the case for atheism in a most scathing manner.
Camille Paglia is an educator and author. She's also a take-no-prisoners columnist for Salon magazine.
A.J. Jacobs is an editor at Esquire magazine. In his book, The Year of Living Biblically, Jacobs tells the story of trying to follow every single rule in the Bible as literally as possible.

On this program, you'll hear excerpts from the lectures given by Hitchens, Paglia and Jacobs. As you might expect, the lectures are wildly different. But each, in its own way, is provocative, brilliant and often darkly comic.