Christopher Hitchens
British-American author and journalist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Christopher Eric Hitchens was a British author and journalist who is widely regarded as one of the most influential atheists of the 20th and 21st centuries. Author of 18 books on faith, culture, politics, and literature, he was born and educated in Britain, graduating in the 1970s from Oxford with a degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics. In the early 1980s, he emigrated to the United States and wrote for The Nation and Vanity Fair. Known as "one of the 'four horsemen'" of New Atheism, he gained prominence as a columnist and speaker. His epistemological razor, which states that "what can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence", is still of mark in philosophy and law.
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Christopher Hitchens is most known for their academic work in the field of communications. They are also known for their academic work in the fields of and literature.
Christopher Hitchens has made the following academic contributions:
- Letters to a Young Contrarian
- Hitch-22
- Why Orwell Matters
- Thomas Jefferson: Author of America
- The Trial of Henry Kissinger
- The Missionary Position
- Prepared for the Worst: Selected Essays and Minority Reports
- Mortality
- Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays
- Imperial Spoils: The Curious Case of the Elgin Marbles
- God Is Not Great
- Blood, Class, and Nostalgia: Anglo-American Ironies
- A Long Short War: The Postponed Liberation of Iraq