Christopher Hitchens

Columnist

Christopher Hitchens, longtime contributor to The Nation, wrote a wide-ranging, biweekly column for the magazine from 1982 to 2002. With trademark savage wit, Hitchens flattens hypocrisy inside the Beltway and around the world, laying bare the "permanent government" of entrenched powers and interests.

Born in 1949 in Portsmouth, England, Hitchens received a degree in philosophy, politics and economics from Balliol College, Oxford, in 1970.

His books include Callaghan: The Road to Number Ten (Cassell, 1976); Hostage to History: Cyprus From the Ottomans to Kissinger (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1989); Imperial Spoils: The Case of the Parthenon Marbles (Hill and Wang, 1989); Blood, Class and Nostalgia: Anglo-American Ironies (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1990); and The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice (Verso, 1995); as well as two collections including many Nation essays: Prepared for the Worst (Hill and Wang, 1989) and For the Sake of Argument: Essays & Minority Reports (Verso, 1993). His most recent book is No One Left to Lie To: The Values of the Worst Family (Verso, 2000).

Hitchens has been Washington editor of Harper's and book critic for Newsday, and regularly contributes to such publications as Granta, The London Review of Books, Vogue, New Left Review, Dissent and the Times Literary Supplement.

Joseph Heller Joseph Heller

Nelson Algren's 1961 review of Catch-22 is at www.thenation.com.

Dec 15, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Christopher Hitchens

The ‘Single Standard’ in Kosovo The ‘Single Standard’ in Kosovo

Cambridge, Mass.

Dec 15, 1999 / Letters / Christopher Hitchens and Noam Chomsky

Our Rigged Elections Our Rigged Elections

Some things may be true even if Pat Buchanan says them, and the inescapable fact is that the 2000 presidential election has so far been a rigged affair, bearing more resemblance ...

Oct 28, 1999 / Column / Christopher Hitchens

The Commentary School of Falsification The Commentary School of Falsification

Israeli schoolchildren returned to their desks this year to find a new history curriculum.

Sep 2, 1999 / Column / Christopher Hitchens

Bush’s Death Watch Bush’s Death Watch

In rather the same way as new movies are now "reviewed" in terms of their first weekend gross, new candidates have become subject to evaluation by the dimensions of their "war ch...

Aug 5, 1999 / Column / Christopher Hitchens

The Spies Who Fleeced Us The Spies Who Fleeced Us

It's always suspicious when Washingtonians start breaking into bad Latin. There may be a quid, you hear them say, and there seems to be a quo.

Jun 24, 1999 / Column / Christopher Hitchens

Port Huron Piffle Port Huron Piffle

Tom Hayden's editorial essay ["The Liberals' Folly," May 24] was an offense to reason and an offense to principle. Why don't I begin with the principle?

May 27, 1999 / Column / Christopher Hitchens

Belgrade Degraded Belgrade Degraded

Every now and then it really happens. A "military spokesman" emerges to prove that Joseph Heller was a realist, and Catch-22 a work of reportorial integrity.

Apr 29, 1999 / Column / Christopher Hitchens

Ethnic Poisoning Ethnic Poisoning

In the very first days of Kosovo's drama of the dispossessed--a calculated atrocity that Slobodan Milosevic probably thinks of as his "exodus strategy"--the most amazing mantra ...

Apr 15, 1999 / Column / Christopher Hitchens

Srebrenica Revisited Srebrenica Revisited

During the Balkan war of 1912, Leon Trotsky was a war correspondent for a group of liberal Russian and Ukrainian newspapers.

Apr 1, 1999 / Column / Christopher Hitchens

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