She was of Jewish origin (Christopher and his brother were 1/32 ethnically Jewish), something Hitchens discovered when he was 38 he came to identify as a Jew.Hitchens often referred to Eric simply as 'the commander'. His mother had been a Wren, a member of the Women's Royal Naval Service. Their parents, Eric Ernest Hitchens (1909–1987) and Yvonne Jean Hitchens (née Hickman 1921–1973), met in Scotland when serving in the Royal Navy during World War II. Life and career Early life and education Hitchens was born in Portsmouth, Hampshire, the elder of two boys his brother, Peter, became a socially conservative journalist. Hitchens died from complications related to esophageal cancer in December 2011. In the early 1980s he emigrated to America and wrote for The Nation and Vanity Fair. The dictum 'What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence' has become known as Hitchens's razor.Born and educated in England, Hitchens worked as a journalist with the New Statesman magazine in London in the 1970s after leaving Oxford. He also advocated separation of church and state. He argued for free expression and scientific discovery, and asserted that they were superior to religion as an ethical code of conduct for human civilisation. Hitchens described himself as an anti-theist, who saw all religions as false, harmful and authoritarian. However, he also supported the United States in the Kosovo War, the Afghanistan War, the Iraq War and other military interventions. Hitchens was very critical of aspects of American foreign policy, such as American involvement in war crimes in Vietnam, Chile, and East Timor. Hitchens eventually stopped describing himself as a socialist, but he continued to admire (at least in principle based upon his columns) Marxism, referencing Marx's materialist conception of history. Hitchens originally described himself as a democratic socialist, and he was a member of various socialist organisations throughout his life, including the International Socialists.

Christopher Eric Hitchens (13 April 1949 – 15 December 2011) was a British-American author and journalist who wrote or edited over 30 books (including five essay collections) on culture, politics, and literature.

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