A Look at a Skeptic

Christopher Hitchens (a.k.a. “Hitch”) was a hard-drinking, heavy-smoking writer and public speaker with an acerbic wit. As an iconoclast, he seemed to relish taking positions that others found shocking. Hitch, over the course of his life, migrated from Trotskyite leftism to a rogue supporter of the U.S. invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq. If he was notorious on the Left for this post-9/11 apostasy, he was no less so on the Right for his strident atheism. Hitch became infamous as one of the “New Atheists” alongside Sam Harris, Daniel Dennett, and Richard Dawkins, and the author of god is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything. (“God” with a lowercase “g,” if you please!)