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Christopher Hitchens

Christopher Hitchens is a well known author, journalist and literary critic. He is a contributing editor to Vanity Fair, provides a monthly essay on books for The Atlantic Monthly and has written for The Nation, Wall Street Journal, The London Review of Books, Granta, Harper's, The Los Angeles Times Book Review, New Left Review, Slate, The New York Review of Books, Newsweek International, The Times Literary Supplement, and The Washington Post.

A regular television and radio commentator, Hitchens has also published more than a dozen books including the forthcoming God is Not Great: The Case Against Religion (Warner Twelve), which posits that organized religion does more harm than good, and explains how society would benefit if faith remained personal rather than public. Hitchens has also taught as a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley; the University of Pittsburgh; and the New School of Social Research.

Although his political ideas and positions may have changed through his career, he has steadfastly remained a believer in the Enlightenment values of secularism, humanism and reason. Today Hitchens is focused on protecting our secular democracy against efforts -- both foreign and domestic -- to impose what he calls "theocratic fascism."

He was born in 1949 in Portsmouth, England, and received a degree in philosophy, politics, and economics from Balliol College, Oxford, in 1970. Hitchens currently lives in Washington, D.C.