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How Religion Poisons Everything - Christopher Hitchens

Christopher Hitchens is among the best-known controversial writers and critics in the media. He was a columnist for Vanity Fair, The Nation, and Slate. As a foreign correspondent and travel writer, he has written from more than sixty countries on all five continents. He is the only writer to have written from Iran, Iraq and North Korea since 2000. Hitchens is the author of the recently published God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, as well as Class and Nostalgia: Anglo-American Ironies, The Palestine Question, The Trial of Henry Kissinger, and A Long Short War: The Postponed Liberation of Iraq. Part of the World Affairs Series. Christopher Hitchens was born in Portsmouth, 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, Hitchens worked as a book reviewer in London for The Times and was social science editor of the Times Higher Education Supplement. He was assistant editor and staff writer at The New Statesman, researcher/reporter for London Weekend Television, and chief foreign correspondent for Daily Express. Christopher Hitchens emigrated to the United States in 1981 and worked as a weekly book reviewer for New York Newsday. He since has continued on as a writer, commentator, critic and social intellectual for many publications. Other books he has authored include Karl Marx and The Paris Commune, The Monarchy: A Critique of Britain's Favorite Fetish, and International Territory: The UN after Fifty Years. Cosponsored By: Atheist and Agnostic Society World Affairs Committee on Lectures (funded by GSB)

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