Christopher Eric Hitchens was an American writer, journalist, and literary critic born in English. He has been a contributor to Vanity Fair, The Atlantic, World Affairs, The Nation, Slate, Free Inquiry and a number of other media outlets. Hitchens was also a political observer, whose best-selling book, God Is Not Great, made him a staple of talk shows and lecture circuits. At the Hoover Institution, he was also a media fellow. Hitchens was a polemicist and intellectual. While he was once identified with the Anglo-American radical political left, he embraced some arguably right-wing causes, most notably the Iraq War, near the end of his life. Formerly a Trotskyist and a fixture in the left-wing publications of both the United Kingdom and the United States, Hitchens departed from the grassroots of the political left in 1989 after what he called the European left's "tepid reaction" after Ayatollah Khomeini's issue of a fatwa calling for the murder of Salman Rushdie, but he stated on the Charlie Rose show that he was reminded in August 2007. http://en.wikipedia.org and/or wiki/Christop..... Read More
