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Who is Christopher Hitchens ?

Christopher Eric Hitchens (13 April 1949 – 15 December 2011) was a British-American[ author, polemicist, debater, and journalist.

He contributed to New Statesman, The Nation, The Atlantic, London Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement and Vanity Fair. Hitchens was the author, co-author, editor and co-editor of over thirty books, including five collections of essays, on a range of subjects, including politics, literature and religion.

Ideology:

Hitchens became a socialist "largely [as] the outcome of a study of history, taking sides ... in the battles over industrialism and war and empire." In 2001, he told Rhys Southan of Reason magazine that he could no longer say "I am a socialist". Socialists, he claimed, had ceased to offer a positive alternative to the capitalist system. Capitalism had become the more revolutionary economic system, and he welcomed globalisation as "innovative and internationalist", but added, "I don't think that the contradictions, as we used to say, of the system.

Views on religion:

Hitchens often spoke against the Abrahamic religions, what he called "the three great monotheisms" (Judaism, Christianity and Islam). When asked by readers of The Independent (London) what he considered to be the "axis of evil", Hitchens replied "Christianity, Judaism, Islam – the three leading monotheisms."[128] In God Is Not Great, Hitchens expanded his criticism to include all religions, including those rarely criticised by Western secularists, such as Buddhism and neo-paganism; the book received mixed responses, from praise in The New York Times for his "logical flourishes and conundrums"[129] to accusations of "intellectual and moral shabbiness" in the Financial Times. God Is Not Great was nominated for a National Book Award on 10 October 2007

Books:

2008 Is Christianity Good for the World?

2008 Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq and the Left

2007 God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything,

2007 The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Non-Believer,

2007 "Thomas Paine's Rights of Man: A Biography

2005 Thomas Jefferson: Author of America,

2004 Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays,

2002 Why Orwell Matters

2001 Letters to a Young Contrarian,

2001 The Trial of Henry Kissinger.

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