Christopher Hitchens, in his autobiography, describes a dinner with Christie and her husband, Max Mallowan, that became increasingly uncomfortable as the night wore on, where " The anti-Jewish flavour of the talk was not to be ignored or overlooked, or put down to heavy humour or generational prejudice.

Christopher Hitchens was offended by the notion of Clinton as the first black president noting " we can still define blackness by the following symptoms: alcoholic mothers, under-the-bridge habits ... the tendency to sexual predation and shameless perjury about the same ".

Journalist and public intellectual Christopher Hitchens was one of several authors influenced by Orwell's politics and use of language

In Orwell's Victory, Christopher Hitchens argues, " In answer to the accusation of inconsistency Orwell as a writer was forever taking his own temperature.

Why Orwell Matters was published by Christopher Hitchens in 2002.

In an obituary published in The Nation, Christopher Hitchens wrote that Shahak's home was " a library of information about the human rights of the oppressed ", and that The families of prisoners, the staff of closed and censored publications, the victims of eviction and confiscation -- none were ever turned away.

* The Anglo-American writer Christopher Hitchens said of Pilger: " I remember thinking that his work from Vietnam was very good at the time.

Christopher Eric Hitchens ( 13 April 1949 – 15 December 2011 ) was a British American author and journalist whose career spanned more than four decades.

Hitchens was known for his excoriating critiques of various public figures including Mother Teresa, Bill Clinton, Henry Kissinger and Diana, Princess of Wales.

" His numerous editorials in support of the Iraq War caused some to label him a neoconservative, although Hitchens insisted he was not " a conservative of any kind ", and his friend Ian McEwan described him as representing the anti-totalitarian left.

Hitchens died on December 15, 2011, from complications arising from oesophageal cancer, a disease that he acknowledged was likely due to his lifelong predilection for smoking and drinking.

The British-American columnist Christopher Hitchens was famously asked to testify against the beatification of Mother Teresa in 2002, a role he would later describe as being akin to " representing the Evil One, as it were, pro bono ".

In a Counterpunch article in August 2005, Cockburn referred to Hitchens as: " A guy who called Sid Blumenthal one of his best friends and then tried to have him thrown into prison for perjury ; a guy who waited til his friend Edward Said was on his death bed before attacking him in the Atlantic Monthly ; a guy who knows perfectly well the role Israel plays in US policy but who does not scruple to flail Cindy Sheehan as a LaRouchie and anti-Semite because, maybe, she dared mention the word Israel.

" Hitchens responded by standing by his criticism of Sheehan and then defending his deposition to U. S. House of Representatives prosecutors regarding Blumenthal during the impeachment of Bill Clinton and his critical review of Said ’ s book, Orientalism ( Hitchens stating that the review was determined by the 25th anniversary of the book ’ s original publication and not the state of Said ’ s health ).

In an April 2009 interview with C-SPAN's Brian Lamb, Hitchens intimated that his friendship with Cockburn was still intact despite their disagreements.

He was a contemporary of figures including Christopher Hitchens, John Redwood, William Waldegrave, Edwina Currie, Stephen Milligan, John Scarlett, William Blair, Bill Clinton and Gyles Brandreth.

The journalist Christopher Hitchens was one of her most active critics.

Regarding the book's title with its sexual double meaning, Hitchens said, " it was either that or Sacred Cow, and I thought Sacred Cow would be in bad taste.

Wheen was a close friend of the writer Christopher Hitchens.

The documentary was written by a well-known critic of Mother Teresa, Christopher Hitchens, who co-produced it with Tariq Ali.

Future Football Association General Secretary Ted Croker was a Harriers player during the early 1950s, as was future England international striker Gerry Hitchens ( 1953 – 55 ).

He was a contemporary of figures including Christopher Hitchens, Robert Jackson, William Waldegrave, Edwina Currie, Stephen Milligan, John Redwood, William Blair, Bill Clinton and Gyles Brandreth.

In the 1960s, Hitchens joined the political left, drawn by his anger over the Vietnam War, nuclear weapons, racism, and " oligarchy ", including that of " the unaccountable corporation ".

* Tariq Ali and Christopher Hitchens – took opposing sides in two debates over the Iraq War, on December 4, 2003 and October 12, 2004.

The video shows Hitchens being led into a room that has a horizontal board waiting for him ; he is bound and has a black mask over his face, blindfolding him.

" Next, the torturers place a towel over Hitchens ' face, and proceed to pour water on the towel.

The Case of Henry Kissinger ", debate between O ' Sullivan and Christopher Hitchens over whether former U. S. Secretary of State and National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger's foreign policy involved war crimes.

However when Alf Ramsey took over as England manager, Hitchens ' international spell came to a halt — Ramsey preferring to pick home-based players.

Its roster of over 200 interviews includes authors Jonathan Ames, Azar Nafisi, Howard Zinn, Christopher Hitchens, James Ellroy, Ethan Hawke, and Chip Kidd, plus members of the bands Sleater-Kinney and Animal Collective.

According to the journalist Christopher Hitchens, Ekéus " told me that he'd been offered by Tariq Aziz in person, to his face, a bribe of a million and a half dollars to change his inspection report.

* Malraux: A Life ( 2005 ) by Olivier Todd ( ISBN 0375407022 ) Review by Christopher Hitchens

* The Coastline by Simon Hitchens

* Minority Report ( 1982 to 2002 ) by Christopher Hitchens

* 1956 — Paintings by Ivon Hitchens, John Bratby, Derrick Greaves, Edward Middleditch, and Jack Smith.

Amongst the many authors published by Allen & Unwin are Alex Miller, Christos Tsiolkas, Garth Nix, Jodi Picoult, Kate Morton, Michael Connelly, Thomas Keneally, Peter Corris, Paul Keating, Stephanie Dowrick and Christopher Hitchens.

The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice is a book by Christopher Hitchens about Mother Teresa's life and work.

Hitchens also includes the contents of a letter written to Mother Teresa by the man prosecuting the case against Keating, Deputy District Attorney for Los Angeles Paul Turley.

" In 1996, The New York Times published a favourable review by Bruno Maddox in which he says: " Mr. Hitchens, a columnist at Vanity Fair and The Nation, is rather convincing " and " Hitchens argues his case with consummate style ".

* Mommie Dearest-Slate article by Hitchens about Mother Teresa

Category: Books by Christopher Hitchens

Dennett is referred to as one of the " Four Horsemen of New Atheism ", along with Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and the late Christopher Hitchens.

* In the opening chapter of his book God is Not Great, Christopher Hitchens quotes from Richard Le Gallienne's translation of Khayyam's famous quatrain:

Other awardees include Steven Weinberg ( 2001 ), Penn & Teller ( 2003 ), Alan Dershowitz ( 2003 ), Ron Reagan ( 2004 ), Peter Singer ( 2004 ), Christopher Hitchens ( 2007 ), Daniel Dennett ( 2008 ), Ayaan Hirsi Ali ( 2010 ), and Richard Dawkins ( 2001, 2012 ).

Prospect received worldwide attention in October 2005 when it published its list of the world's top 100 public intellectuals, which included Noam Chomsky, Umberto Eco, Richard Dawkins, Steven Pinker and Christopher Hitchens.

In 2000, Hitchens left the Daily Express after its acquisition by Richard Desmond ; Hitchens stated that working for Desmond would have represented a moral conflict of interest.

* Others: Mortimer Adler, Muhammad Ali, Anthony Burgess, Beth Courtney, Bernadette Devlin, Allen Ginsberg, Billy Graham, Jesse Jackson, Henry Kissinger, Jack Kerouac, Clare Boothe Luce, Malachi Martin, Groucho Marx, Malcolm Muggeridge, William Shockley, Christopher Hitchens, Huey P. Newton, Tom Wolfe, Norman Mailer, Walker Percy, Richard Vatz, Jorge Luis Borges, and Richard John Neuhaus

Other major recent speakers include California gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman, California Attorney General Kamala Harris, former secretaries of State Condoleezza Rice, George Shultz, James Baker, and Madeleine Albright ; California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger ; Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner ; authors Christopher Hitchens, Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Greg Mortenson ; microcredit entrepreneur and Nobel Prize Winner Muhammad Yunus ; historian Victor Davis Hanson ; airline pilot Chesley Sullenberger ; CIA Director Leon Panetta ; former U. S. Comptroller General and Peter Peterson Foundation President David Walker, and business leaders Richard Kovacevich and David O ' Reilly.

In March 2007 he debated antitheists Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, and A. C. Grayling in London on the topic " Are We Better Off Without Religion ?".

Christopher Hitchens points to a statement by former counterterrorism chief Richard Clarke when interviewed by The Hill newspaper in May 2004, in which " he, and he alone, took the responsibility for authorizing Saudi departures.

Basic's list of authors includes Christopher Andrew, Anthony Appiah, Isaac Asimov, Robert Axelrod, Susan R. Barry, Daniel Bell, John Bradshaw, Allan Brandt, Richard Brookhiser, Zbigniew Brzezinski, William F. Buckley, Stephen Carter, Iris Chang, George Chauncey, Stephanie Coontz, Dinesh D ’ Souza, Devra Davis, Richard Dawkins, Hernando de Soto, Jared Diamond, Michael Eric Dyson, Thomas B. Edsall, Richard Evans, Graham Farmelo, Niall Ferguson, Richard Feynman, Richard Florida, Robin Lane Fox, Sigmund Freud, Howard Gardner, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Clifford Geertz, George Gilder, Barry Glassner, Robert Harms, Judith L. Herman, Christopher Hitchens, Douglas Hofstadter, Samuel P. Huntington, Jacqueline Jones, June Jordan, Leszek Kołakowski, Lawrence Krauss, Irving Kristol, George Lakoff, Edward Larson, Christopher Lasch, Mary Lefkowitz, Lawrence Lessig, Claude Levi-Strauss, Bernard Lewis, Robert Jay Lifton, Jeff Madrick, Nelson Mandela, Benoit Mandelbrot, Ernst Mayr, Walter A. McDougall, John McWhorter, Dana Milbank, Alice Miller, Walter Mosley, Charles Murray, Richard John Neuhaus, Donald Norman, Robert Nozick, Joseph S. Nye, Jr., James T. Patterson, Orlando Patterson, Jean Piaget, Steven Pinker, Karl Popper, Samantha Power, Diane Ravitch, Eugene Rogan, Juliet Schor, Brent Scowcroft, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Lee Smolin, Timothy Snyder, Thomas Sowell, Ian Stewart, Cass Sunstein, Beverly Daniel Tatum, Lester Thurow, Sherry Turkle, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Michael Walzer, Elizabeth Warren, George Weigel, Steven Weinberg, Cornel West, Frank Wilczek, A. N.

Some of the previous guests have included: Sridevi, The Tragically Hip, M. I. A., Eckhart Tolle, Margaret Atwood, Hillary Clinton, Sarah Palin, Wyclef Jean, Chris Jericho, Tom Cruise, Bill Maher, James Cameron, Robert F. Kennedy Jr, Marlee Matlin, Tim Robbins, Spike Lee, Ricky Gervais, Tony Bennett, Greg Kinnear, John Legend, David Byrne, former President of the United States Jimmy Carter, Larry King, LeBron James, Henry Rollins, Evangeline Lilly, former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan, Alanis Morissette, Malcolm Gladwell, Richard Branson, Howard Zinn, Kings of Leon, Kylie Minogue, Daniel and Henrik Sedin, Sean Avery, former Canadian Prime Ministers Paul Martin, John Turner and Brian Mulroney, P! nk, Smashing Pumpkins, David Suzuki, Mike Holmes, Douglas Coupland, Naomi Klein, Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, Daniel Tammet, David Thewlis, Larry Charles, Dana White, Tony Robbins, Gordon Ramsay, Dave Salmoni and Adrien Brody.

His most recent book, in English, is Men of a Single Book: Fundamentalism in Islam, Christianity, and Modern Thought ( United States, World Wisdom, 2010 ), a critique both of religious and anti-religious fundamentalism ; the later represented specially by polemicists such as Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens.

Some general critics of religion and polemics such as Christopher Hitchens and Richard Dawkins go farther and argue that religions do tremendous harm to society in three ways:

Dysteleology is an aggressive, yet optimistic, form of science-oriented atheism originally perhaps associated with Haeckel and his followers, but now perhaps more associated with the type of atheism of Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, or Christopher Hitchens.

Prof. Antony Flew ( UK ), Tom Flynn ( USA ), Jim Herrick ( UK ), Christopher Hitchens ( USA ), Ellen Johnson ( USA ), Prof. Paul Kurtz ( USA ), Lavanam ( India ), Dr. Richard Leakey ( Kenya ), Iain Middleton ( New Zealand ), Dr. Henry Morgentaler ( Canada ), Dr. Taslima Nasreen ( Bangladesh ), Steinar Nilsen ( Norway ), Prof. Jean-Claude Pecker ( France ), James Randi ( USA ), Prof. Ajoy Roy ( Bangladesh ), Dr. Younus Shaikh ( Pakistan ), Dr. G N Jyoti Shankar ( deceased, USA ), Barbara Smoker ( UK ), Richard Stallman ( USA ), Prof.