Historically famous critics

Christopher Hitchens

1949-2011 · British-American · 20th-21st century

Anglo-American polemicist who attacked religion, tyranny, and sacred public figures

Christopher Hitchens was a fearless polemicist who made a career of confronting people and institutions others treated as untouchable. He indicted Henry Kissinger as a war criminal, dismantled the saintly image of Mother Teresa, exposed the evasions of Bill Clinton, and in God Is Not Great mounted a sweeping assault on organized religion. He earned a place among the great critics for combining deep erudition with moral nerve and a refusal to soften an argument to keep friends.