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<div>[[Image:Hitchens,_Stanford.jpg |right|thumb|200px|Christopher Hitchens]]<br />
'''Christopher Eric Hitchens''' (born April 13, 1949, in [[Portsmouth]], [[England]]) is a journalist, author and literary critic. Hitchens received degrees in philosophy, politics and economics from [[Oxford University|Balliol College]], [[Oxford]], in 1970. From 1971-1981, he worked in [[Britain]] as book reviewer for ''The Times'' newspaper. He emigrated to the United States in 1981, and has written regularly, or been a contributing editor for ''Harper's'', ''Vanity Fair'' and [[Nation (magazine)|''The Nation'']]. He is [[Judaism|Jewish]] by matrilineal descent, although he did not discover this until he was 38 years old. He is an avowed [[Atheism|atheist]]. Hitchens has a younger brother, [[Peter Hitchens]], who is also a very prominent journalist, author and critic.<br />
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Christopher Hitchens was a member of the International Socialists and an active [[Trotskyist]] during his youth. Today he is "on the same side as the neo-conservatives," but does not consider himself a conservative. It is also questionable whether he ever really abandoned socialism, seeing as he is still an atheist. He supports George W. Bush's foreign policy, but has a negative attitude towards the president's support of [[intelligent design]].<br />
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He was a harsh critic of [[Ronald Reagan]] and of [[Henry Kissinger]] whom he considers a [[war criminal]].<br />
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==Opposition to Islam and Support of the War on Terror==<br />
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Christopher Hitchens became an activist against Islam when Ayatullah Kohmeini declared a [[fatwa]] against his personal friend [[Salman Rushdie]]. The event has led him to become very vocal in his support of the war in Iraq and heavily critical of Muslim society and ethics.<br />
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==Select bibliography ==<br />
*''Callaghan: The Road to Number Ten'' (Cassell, 1976) <br />
*''Hostage to History: Cyprus From the Ottomans to Kissinger'' (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1989) <br />
*''Imperial Spoils: The Case of the Parthenon Marbles'' (Hill and Wang, 1989) <br />
*''Blood, Class and Nostalgia: Anglo-American Ironies'' (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1990) <br />
*''The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice'' (Verso, 1995)<br />
*''Prepared for the Worst'' (Hill and Wang, 1989) <br />
*''For the Sake of Argument: Essays & Minority Reports'' (Verso, 1993) <br />
*''No One Left to Lie To: The Values of the Worst Family'' (Verso, 2000)<br />
*''God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything'' - outside the US, published with the alternate subtitle ''The Case Against Religion'' (Atlantic, 2007)<br />
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