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SUMMARY:How Religion Poisons Everything - Christopher Hitche
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LOCATION:Sun Room\, Memorial Union
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 Christopher Hitchens is among the best-known controversial w
 riters and critics in the media. He was a columnist for Vani
 ty Fair\, The Nation\, and Slate. As a foreign correspondent
  and travel writer\, he has written from more than sixty cou
 ntries on all five continents. He is the only writer to have
  written from Iran\, Iraq and North Korea since 2000. Hitche
 ns is the author of the recently published God Is Not Great:
  How Religion Poisons Everything\, as well as Class and Nost
 algia: Anglo-American Ironies\, The Palestine Question\, The
  Trial of Henry Kissinger\, and A Long Short War: The Postpo
 ned Liberation of Iraq. Part of the World Affairs Series.\n-
 -------------------\nChristopher Hitchens was born in Portsm
 outh\, England\, and educated at The Leys School (Cambridge)
  and Balliol College (Oxford). He holds an Honors Degree in 
 Philosophy\, Politics and Economics. From 1971 to 1981\, Hit
 chens worked as a book reviewer in London for The Times and 
 was social science editor of the Times Higher Education Supp
 lement. He was assistant editor and staff writer at The New 
 Statesman\, researcher/reporter for London Weekend Televisio
 n\, and chief foreign correspondent for Daily Express.\n\nCh
 ristopher Hitchens emigrated to the United States in 1981 an
 d worked as a weekly book reviewer for New York Newsday. He 
 since has continued on as a writer\, commentator\, critic an
 d social intellectual for many publications. Other books he 
 has authored include Karl Marx and The Paris Commune\, The M
 onarchy: A Critique of Britain's Favorite Fetish\,  and Inte
 rnational Territory: The UN after Fifty Years.\n\nContact: l
 ectures@iastate.edu\nPhone: 515-294-9934
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