Mr Blair, the former Labour prime minister, publicly debated religion with Hitchens in November 2010.
"He wrote to me recently saying he thought I'd misused the word 'infamous, '" Mr. Hitchens says.
WSJ: Martin Amis and Christopher Hitchens, Authors and Friends
Mary, a woman, was the Chris-bearer (in Greek, Christopheros) after whom Mr. Hitchens was named.
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"BP realizes it has to change, " said Peter Hitchens, an oil analyst at Panmure Gordon.
Mr. Amis says Mr. Hitchens rarely requires his editing these days, except when it comes to punctuation.
WSJ: Martin Amis and Christopher Hitchens, Authors and Friends
Hitchens, one of our great political pugilists, delivers the best of the recent rash of atheist manifestos.
Normally, the latter happens through reading, practice, and watching people like Matt Dillahunty and Christopher Hitchens on YouTube.
Mail on Sunday columnist Peter Hitchens told the Daily Politics it was not just a problem for Scotland.
He claims 500 people signed a petition and that authors Brian Aldiss and Peter Hitchens have lent their support.
Watch this video of a discussion that Hitchens had with Peter Robinson and one of my old professors, Robert Service.
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It was Mr. Amis who taught him not to subordinate style to substance when crafting an argument, Mr. Hitchens says.
WSJ: Martin Amis and Christopher Hitchens, Authors and Friends
Christopher Hitchens has continued his outspoken attacks on religion in interviews as he is treated for cancer of the oesophagus.
Hitchens wrote for numerous publications including The Times Literary Supplement, the Daily Express, the London Evening Standard, Newsday and The Atlantic.
Tributes have flooded in for the British-born author, literary critic and journalist Christopher Hitchens who has died at the age of 62.
Quite a lot of Britain's top controversialists, such as Christopher Hitchens or Salman Rushdie, seem to spend much of their time in America.
For cybercommerce to work, "financial institutions have to get their act together, " says Pete Hitchens, a Net analyst with International Data Corp. in Singapore.
Hitchens and Amis, now both in their 60s, have written about their friendship before (most notably, Mr. Amis addressed it in his 2000 memoir, "Experience").
WSJ: Martin Amis and Christopher Hitchens, Authors and Friends
As you might guess, I have a lot of ill I could speak of Hitchens, as I disagree with him about so very, very much.
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Mr Hitchens admits that it was funnier at the time (and probably funnier still for those robbed of their critical faculties by copious amounts of alcohol).
If Mr Hitchens can stay off the booze and do some serious thinking, his real autobiography, in 20 years' time or so, should be a corker.
Over the past eight years, authors such as Richard Dawkins and the late Christopher Hitchens have attacked religion in bestselling books, appealing to logic and science.
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This year's Oxford Debate features journalists Peter Hitchens and Simon Jenkins discussing drugs policy, while former Liberal Democrat leader Lord Ashdown will host a debate on universal values.
Hitchens would often concede that he did believe in an absolute moral law- that people really should be good and nice to each other and respectful and peaceful.
FORBES: Christopher Hitchens, A Fighter To the End (1949 - 2011)
Christopher Hitchens is, most unfortunately, once again in the news.
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Though specific details have yet to emerge regarding the specific motivations and background behind the plot, Christopher Hitchens in an article for Slate magazine offers a few guiding points.
In America, the so-called new atheists--most prominently Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens and Richard Dawkins--don't need to think twice about ridiculing religious beliefs or savaging the most powerful priest or pastor.
The key to understanding Christopher Hitchens is that his friends were a kind of aristocracy to him, and his close friends (like the author Martin Amis) were members of the royal family.
The publication of Unhitched has prompted many Hitchens defenders, a group which never appears to be in short supply among political writers, to man the battlements to defend the honor of their departed comrade.
FORBES: The 'Unhitched' Controversy And Christopher Hitchens' Fondness for Leon Trotsky
Most chapters hinge on an idea or character, beginning with Mr. Hitchens's mother, an emotionally volatile figure who hid her Jewish identity from her family, and his father, a commander in Britain's Royal Navy.
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