Christopher Eric Hitchens (born April 13, 1949) is an English-American author and journalist. His books — the latest being God Is Not Great — have made him a prominent public intellectual, and a staple of talk shows and lecture circuits. He has been a columnist and literary critic at Vanity Fair, Slate, The Atlantic, World Affairs, The Nation, Free Inquiry, and a variety of other media outlets.
As a political activist and observer, polemicist and...
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Christopher Eric Hitchens (born April 13, 1949) is an English-American author and journalist. His books — the latest being God Is Not Great — have made him a prominent public intellectual, and a staple of talk shows and lecture circuits. He has been a columnist and literary critic at Vanity Fair, Slate, The Atlantic, World Affairs, The Nation, Free Inquiry, and a variety of other media outlets.
As a political activist and observer, polemicist and self styled political radicalist, Hitchens would rise to prominence as a fixture in the left-wing publications of both his native United Kingdom and United States. Hitchens' infamous departure from the political left began in 1989 after what he called the "tepid reaction" of the European left following Ayatollah Khomeini's issue of a fatwā calling for the murder of Salman Rushdie. The September 11, 2001 attacks strengthened his embrace of an interventionist foreign policy, and his vociferous criticism of what he calls "fascism with an Islamic...
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