The Christopher Hitchens Web

Hitchens writes for Slate and The Daily Mirror and is a contributing editor to The Atlantic Monthly and to Vanity Fair.

He contributes to such publications as Critical Quarterly, Foreign Policy, Free Inquiry, The Globe and Mail, Granta, Grand Street, The London Review of Books, Harper's, The Los Angeles Times Book Review, New Left Review, Newsweek International, The New York Observer, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Book Review, The Times Literary Supplement, The Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and the Weekly Standard.

On television, Hitchens sometimes appears on Hardball with Chris Matthews, Charlie Rose, Uncommon Knowledge, The Chris Matthews Show, Real Time with Bill Maher, The Tavis Smiley Show, and CSPAN's Washington Journal.

Hitchens has been a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Pittsburgh, and the New School of Social Research.

Mr. Hitchens was born in Portsmouth, England and educated at the Leys School, Cambridge, and Balliol College, Oxford, where he read Philosophy, Politics, and Economics. From 1971-1981, he worked in Britain as book reviewer for the Times; social science editor of the Times Higher Education Supplement; assistant editor and staff writer for the New Statesman; researcher/reporter for London Weekend Television; and chief foreign correspondent for the Daily Expresss. In 1981, he emigrated to the United States.

From 1982-2002, he wrote a column called the "Minority Report" for the Nation.  Since 1992, he has been columnist and contributing editor at Vanity Fair and, at different times, Washington editor and columnist for Harpers magazine, American columnist and correspondent for the Spectator (London), the New Statesman (London), the Times Literary Supplement (London), Sunday Today (London), and the Sunday Correspondent (London). As foreign correspondent and travel writer, he has written from more than sixty countries on all five continents.

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