Christopher Hitchens

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Sex, bugs and video tapes

Debate: September 7th, 2010
The Middle East peace process is a charade

Debate: September 21st, 2010
Assisted suicide should be legalised

Debate: October 19th, 2010
Stop bashing Christians!

Debate: November 3rd, 2010
Don't eat animals

Debate: December 9th, 2010

Elizabeth Gilbert on 'Eat, Pray, Love'

Talk: September 15th, 2010
Pervez Musharraf in conversation with Sir Christopher Meyer

Talk: September 29th, 2010
William Gibson on 'Zero History'

Talk: October 4th, 2010
Crisis and Recovery; Ethics, Economics and Justice

Discussion: September 28th, 2010

Christopher Hitchens

Author, journalist, and literary critic

Writer, broadcaster and polemicist, Christopher Hitchens is author of the bestselling book God is not Great (2007). He is an outspoken atheist and is an Honorary Associate of the National Secular Society. After graduating from the University of Oxford, he worked for the Times Higher Education Supplement before moving to The New Statesman. He then emigrated to America, where he worked for The Nation. He has written for a number of other publications, including Vanity Fair, and The Atlantic, for whom he writes a monthly review of books.

Among Hitchens' other books are Thomas Jefferson: Author of America (2005), and Why Orwell Matters (2002). He received the 1991 Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction, and the 2007 National Magazine Award for Columns and Commentary for his work at Vanity Fair. In 2005, Hitchens was named as one of the "Top 100 Public Intellectuals" by Foreign Policy and Britain's Prospect magazine.