Hitchens became a conservative after being a leftist for years. Christopher Hitchens
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Christopher Hitchens (born April 26, 1949) is a British-born American journalist, author, and self-proclaimed political gadfly. Over the years he has written for a variety of different publications, including Vanity Fair, The Nation, and Harper's.
Hitchens is well-known for his ruffled and hard-drinking persona, as well as his difficult to predict — some say opportunistic — political views. A prolific writer, he has written many books and articles over the years on a variety of very controversial subjects. One book condemned Mother Teresa as a self-serving egotist. Another, No One Left To Lie To, was a fierce denunciation of Bill Clinton. A more recent tome put Henry Kissinger "on trial" as a world-class war criminal. He has also written a book length appreciation of George Orwell.
Though once regarded as a stalwart member of the Anglo-American left, Hitchens has recently made ferocious attacks on those leftists whom he regards as "unrepentant Stalinists". He has also been taking aim at leading radicals, such as Noam Chomsky, whom he accuses of being soft on what he calls "Islamofascism", and Michael Moore. His support of the 2003 Invasion of Iraq found him cut off from most of the left and led to his resignation as long-time columnist for the left-wing magazine The Nation. Hitchens now says he identifies strongly with much of the American neoconservative movement, although he does not prefer to label himself so. |
