British-American journalist and polemicist who was the most brilliant essayist of his generation — and whose support for the Iraq War, combined with his New Atheism, alienated his former left-wing allies.
God Is Not Great: a polemical case against religion — 'Religion poisons everything.' Letters to a Young Contrarian: on the virtues of dissent. Support for the Iraq War: Hitchens was a prominent left-wing intellectual who supported the invasion, framing it as anti-fascism — permanently damaging his standing on the left. Mortality: a brief, honest book written as he was dying of esophageal cancer.
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