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Hitchens Coming to ISU
Journalist Christopher Hitchens
Christopher Hitchens
On Tuesday, October 11, Christopher Hitchens, journalist and author, will visit ISU to deliver a lecture entitled “Are We at War with Terrorism?” sponsored by the Hibbert R. Roberts Lecture in Public Policy and the Sage Fund. Hitchens is a contributing editor to Vanity Fair, a regular contributing columnist to The Atlantic Monthly, and the author of many books including, most recently, Thomas Jefferson: Author of America; Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays; and A Long Short War: The Postponed Liberation of Iraq.  Hitchens’ controversial stances on several political issues have led many to label his published work as polemical, yet Hitchens himself employs the term “contrarian” to describe his engaged political and social commentary. “I am delighted to have someone of Christopher Hitchens’s stature lecturing on our campus,” said Dean Olson. “The lecture promises to be lively and entertaining regardless of one’s political orientation.”  

Hitchens received a degree in philosophy, politics, and economics from Balliol College, University of Oxford, in 1970. He began his journalism career in England during the 1970s as a writer for the Evening

Cover of Hitchens's book, _Thomas Jefferson: Author of America_
Standard. He worked as a foreign correspondent for London’s Daily Express and as foreign editor for the New Statesman. Hitchens has served as Harper’s Washington editor and as the U.S. correspondent for The Spectator and The Time Literary Supplement. After the 9/11 terrorist event occurred, Hitchens’s resignation from his long-term position as a columnist for the periodical The Nation was widely publicized. Since then, his essays, columns, and television appearances have focused on topics such as the 9/11 event, global terrorism, the U.S. invasion of Iraq, and U.S. election issues. 

The event is free and open to the public. It will begin at 7:00 p.m. in Braden Auditorium in the Bone Student Center on Tuesday, October 11, 2005. If accommodations are needed, please call the Disability Concerns Office at 438-5853 (voice) or 438-8620 (TDD).  

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