{"id":19683,"date":"2002-09-09T09:23:27","date_gmt":"2002-09-09T14:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=19683"},"modified":"2024-07-08T15:43:11","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T19:43:11","slug":"journalist-hitchens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2002\/09\/09\/journalist-hitchens\/","title":{"rendered":"Iconoclastic journalist Christopher Hitchens to discuss &#039;Is Islam the Enemy?&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Iconoclastic journalist Christopher Hitchens, known for his trenchantly witty critiques of hypocrisy and entrenched political power, presents a lecture titled\u00a0 <em>Is Islam the Enemy?<\/em> at 4:10 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 25 in Pettengill Hall. The talk is sponsored by the psychology department as part of a series of events connected to the observance of the one-year anniversary of Sept. 11. The public is invited to attend free of charge.<\/div>\n<p>Hitchens is a contributor to such British newspapers as The Guardian and produces a biting biweekly column, &#8220;Minority Report,&#8221; for The Nation as its longtime Washington correspondent. A contributing editor to Vanity Fair, Hitchens regularly writes for such publications as The Atlantic, The London Review of Books, Granta, Grand Street, Harper&#8217;s, The Los Angeles Times Book Review, New Left Review, The New York Review of Books, Newsweek International and The Times Literary Supplement.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Hitchens&#8217; 10 books include the forthcoming <em>Why Orwell Matters<\/em> (Basic Books, 2002), <em>Letters to A Young Contrarian<\/em> (Basic Books, 2001) and\u00a0 <em>The Trial of Henry Kissinger<\/em> (Verso Books, 2001). Known as a leftist essayist, Hitchens barbecues Democrats as well as Republicans as evidenced in his expose of the Clintons in <em>No One Left to Lie To: The Values of the Worst Family<\/em> (Verso Books, 2000).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well traveled, hyper-educated . . . [and] always funny,&#8221; wrote the Village Voice Literary Supplement, &#8220;Christopher Hitchens has no equal in American journalism.&#8221;\u00a0 The San Francisco Chronicle calls Hitchens &#8220;a brilliant polemicist and a tireless reporter.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He periodically appears on CSPAN&#8217;s <em>Washington Journal<\/em>, and shows such as <em>Uncommon Knowledge<\/em>, <em>Larry King Live<\/em>, <em>Meet the Press with Tim Russert<\/em> and <em>Hardball<\/em> with Chris Matthews.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iconoclastic journalist Christopher Hitchens, known for his trenchantly witty critiques of hypocrisy and entrenched political power, presents a lecture titled &#8220;Is Islam the Enemy?&#8221; at 4:10 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 25 in Pettengill Hall. 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