Christopher Hitchens

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Person

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Male

Origin

United Kingdom

Active from

1949-04-13

Active to

2011-12-15

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Christopher Eric Hitchens, (13 April 1949 – 15 December 2011; born in Portsmouth, England) was an English American author, journalist, and professor whose books, essays, and journalistic career spanned more than four decades. He was a columnist and literary critic for The Atlantic, Free Inquiry, The Nation, Salon, Slate, Vanity Fair, World Affairs, and became a media fellow at the Hoover Institution in September 2008. He was a staple of talk shows <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Christopher+H

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5 total works indexed

1. RoB 2: a revised tool for assessing risk of bias in randomised trials

   · 2019 · cited 23,890x

2. The Third International Consensus Definitions for Sepsis and Septic Shock (Sepsis-3)

   · 2016 · cited 22,934x

3. A New Equation to Estimate Glomerular Filtration Rate

   · 2009 · cited 22,302x

4. Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2

   · 2019 · cited 20,049x

5. Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome

   · 2001 · cited 18,520x

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Quotes

• “Chomsky proceeds on the almost unthinkably subversive assumption that the United States should be judged by the same standards that it preaches (often at gunpoint) to other nations— he is nearly the only person now writing who assumes a single standard of international morality not for rhetorical effect, but as a matter of habitual, practically instinctual conviction.”
• “If most of those who took part in this one-dimensional debate were honest with themselves, they would admit that they do not in principle believe that the United States can do any good overseas for anyone but the American government, its armed forces, or privileged American elites.”
• “David Irving is not just a Fascist historian. He is also a great historian of Fascism.”
• “The "line of the day" among administration spokesmen, confronted by masses of destitute and terrified refugees and solid reports of the mass execution of civilians, is to say that "we expected this to happen." They did? (They never told anyone.) If they want to avoid being indicted for war crimes themselves, these "spokesmen" had better promise us that they were lying when they said that.”
• “I can never quite decide whether the anti-Columbus movement is merely risible or faintly sinister... It is sinister, though, because it is an ignorant celebration of stasis and backwardness, with an unpleasant tinge of self-hatred.”
• “The transformation of part of the northern part of this continent into "America" inaugurated a nearly boundless epoch of opportunity and innovation, and thus deserves to be celebrated with great vim and gusto, with or without the participation of those who wish they had never been born.”

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