Christopher Hitchens
Posted 2007-10-31
by Rational Response Squad
Hitchens is a British-American author, journalist and literary critic. Currently living in Washington, D.C., he has been a columnist at Vanity Fair, The Atlantic, The Nation, Slate and Free Inquiry; additionally, he is an occasional contributor to other publications and has appeared regularly in the Wall Street Journal. His brother is fellow journalist Peter Hitchens.
Hitchens is known for his atheism, and antitheism. He is also noted for his acerbic wit and his noisy departure from the Anglo-American political left. He was formerly a Trotskyist and a fixture in the left wing publications of Britain and America. But a series of disagreements beginning in the early 1990s led to his resignation from The Nation shortly after the September 11, 2001 attacks. He is also known for his ardent admiration of George Orwell and Thomas Jefferson, and his criticism of Mother Teresa, Henry Kissinger and Bill Clinton.
Hitchens is known for his atheism, and antitheism. He is also noted for his acerbic wit and his noisy departure from the Anglo-American political left. He was formerly a Trotskyist and a fixture in the left wing publications of Britain and America. But a series of disagreements beginning in the early 1990s led to his resignation from The Nation shortly after the September 11, 2001 attacks. He is also known for his ardent admiration of George Orwell and Thomas Jefferson, and his criticism of Mother Teresa, Henry Kissinger and Bill Clinton.
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