God Is Not Great | Christopher Hitchens | Talks at Google

Author Christopher Hitchens discusses his book “God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons

Everything” as a part of the Authors@Google series. The author of Why Orwell Matters and Letters

to a Young Contrarian, Christopher Hitchens is a Vanity Fair contributing editor, a Slate columnist,

and a regular contributor to The Atlantic Monthly. He has also written for The Nation, Granta,

Harper’s, The Washington Post, and is a frequent television and radio guest. Born in England,

Hitchens was educated at Balliol College, Oxford, where he received a degree in philosophy,

politics, and economics. He now lives in Washington, D.C., and he became a U.S. citizen in 2007.

This event took place on August 16, 2007 at Google headquarters in Mountain View, CA.