Christopher Hitchens

Christopher Eric Hitchens (born April 13, 1949) is a British journalist, author, and literary critic. He lives in Washington, DC, and has been a columnist at Vanity Fair, The Nation, Slate, and an occasional contributor to many other publications.

Peter Hitchens

His younger brother by two-and-a-half years, Peter Hitchens, is also a journalist, author and critic. Peter was initially also a leftist but later came to hold radically different, conservative, political opinions after several years spent reporting on the British Labour movement and British politics, followed by many assignments in Communist Eastern Europe and a period as a resident correspondent in Moscow at the end of the Soviet era. Today Peter writes for a London newspaper, the Mail on Sunday. He is a staunch but unpredictable conservative who opposed the invasion of Iraq and criticised elements of Thatcherism in his book The Abolition of Britain. He is also a leading critic of current plans to introduce a national identity card in Britain and has called for the replacement of Britain's Conservative Party by a new movement. The brothers had a protracted falling-out after Peter expressed surprise at Christopher's reaction to 9/11, citing extreme anti-American views that Christopher denied ever having held. Peter is also an editor at Pat Buchanan's American Conservative Magazine—a fact that Christopher has blasted repeatedly in print.

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