Johann Hari (born January 21, 1979) is a British journalist and writer. He is a columnist for The Independent and the Evening Standard. His work has also appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The New Republic, Le Monde and Ha'aretz. He is also a regular arts critic on the BBC programme Newsnight Review. is the 21st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Also: 1979 by Smashing Pumpkins. ... A columnist is a journalist who produces a specific form of writing for publication called a column. Columns appear in newspapers, magazines and the Internet. ... For other uses, see The Independent (disambiguation). ... Headlines of the Evening Standard on the day of London bombing on July 7, 2005, in Waterloo Station The Evening Standard is a British tabloid newspaper published and sold in London and surrounding areas of southeast England. ... The New York Times is an internationally known daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed in the United States and many other nations worldwide. ... This just IN !!!:paris hiltons new dog. ... For other uses, see New Republic. ... For the song by the Thievery Corporation, see Le Monde (song). ... Haaretz (הארץ, The Land) is an Israeli newspaper, founded in 1919. ... For the CNN programme see NewsNight with Aaron Brown Newsnight is a British daily news analysis, current affairs and politics programme broadcast on weekdays at 10. ...

Early life

Hari was born in Glasgow and raised in London. He attended Aylward School, John Lyon School, North Cheshire Theatre School, Weald College and Woodhouse College. He graduated with a double first in Social and Political Sciences at King's College, Cambridge in 2001[1] For other uses, see Glasgow (disambiguation). ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... John Lyon School (previously The Lower School of John Lyon in Harrow) is a public day school in Harrow-on-the-Hill, England. ... Woodhouse College Woodhouse College is a single site sixth form college situated between North Finchley and Friern Barnet on the eastern side of the London Borough of Barnet. ... The British bachelors degree classification system is a grading scheme used to distinguish between the achievements of bachelors degree graduates in the United Kingdom. ... Full name The King’s College of Our Lady and St Nicholas in Cambridge Motto Veritas et Utilitas Truth and usefulness Named after Henry VI Previous names - Established 1441 Sister College(s) New College, Oxford Provost Prof. ...

Politics

British domestic politics

Hari describes himself as a "European social democrat", who believes that markets are "an essential tool to generate wealth" but must be matched by strong democratic governments and strong trade unions. ^[1] He supports some policies of the Labour government, such as social programmes like SureStart and child tax credit[2], but opposes others, like the mistreatment of asylum seekers and tax cuts for the rich[3]. He is also a republican[4] who believes the British royal family should be abolished and replaced as head of state with the Speaker of the House of Commons. he generally argues for higher taxes [5] on the wealthy. Sure Start logo Sure Start is a UK Government initiative,originating in the Treasury, with the aim of giving children the best possible start in life through improvement of childcare, early education, health and family support, with an emphasis on outreach and community development. ... A child tax credit is a tax credit based on the number of dependent children in a family. ... Republicanism in the United Kingdom is a movement in the United Kingdom which seeks to remove the British monarchy and replace it with a republic that has a non-hereditary head of state. ...

He has written that Britain has begun to "abuse" refugees and asylum seekers in recent years, and has reported from the homes of refugees and detention centres.[6] ^[2] In 2004, Hari appeared as a guest on Richard Littlejohn's Sky News programme and challenged him about his claims that an asylum seeker could claim hundreds of pounds per week in benefits. Hari stated that the true figure was just £37.77 per week. "I asked Richard how much a single asylum seeker is given in benefits each week. You'd think that a journalist who writes about asylum twice a week would, of course, know something so incredibly basic. His response was clear. He snapped: 'I have no idea'.^[3] Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Richard William Littlejohn (born 18 January 1954 in Ilford, Essex) is an award-winning right wing British journalist, broadcaster, and author of three best-selling books. ... Sky News is a 24-hour British domestic and international television news channel that started broadcasting on 16 February 1989 as part of the then four-channel Sky Television service, as well as a hourly news radio service in the UK. Broadcast of a 24-hour radio service is due...

Hari is critical of UK prison policies, claiming that rehabilitation is impossible in overcrowded prisons, and that far too many mentally ill people are incarcerated.^[4][5] This theory of punishment is based on the notion that punishment is to be inflicted on a offender so as to reform him, or rehabilitate him so as to make his re-integration into society easier. ... The Scream, the famous painting commonly thought of as depicting the experience of mental illness. ...

He has also argued that Britain is in an "irrational panic" about paedophiles, producing harmful laws, pointing out that they are often the victims of sexual abuse themselves and that that persecuting them makes them more likely to offend.^[6][7] Pedophilia (American English) or paedophilia / pædophilia (British English), from the Greek &#960;&#945;&#953;&#948;&#959;&#966;&#953;&#955;&#953;&#945; (paidophilia) < &#960;&#945;&#953;&#962; (pais) boy, child and &#966;&#953;&#955;&#953;&#945; (philia) friendship, (ICD-10 F65. ... “Bad Touch” redirects here. ...

Hari is a supporter of the international legalisation of drugs,^[8] because he believes it creates a vast network of criminal gangs who then cause more trouble than drug use itself. He is in favour of prescribing heroin to the most problematic addicts.^[9] The prohibition of drugs through legislation or religious law is a common means of controlling the perceived negative consequences of recreational drug use at a society- or world-wide level. ...

Hari, a self described homosexual, supports gay rights, advocating full legal equality, including same-sex marriage. ^[10] He has criticized radical gay theorists, and ideas of gay difference, superiority or separatism. [7] He is opposed to hate crimes legislation. [8] The gay rights movement is a collection of loosely aligned civil rights groups, human rights groups, support groups and political activists seeking acceptance, tolerance and equality for non-heterosexual, (homosexual, bisexual), and transgender people - despite the fact that it is typically referred to as the gay rights movement, members also... International recognition Civil unions and domestic partnerships Recognized in some regions Unregistered co-habitation Recognition debated Civil unions legal, same-sex marriage debated See also Same-sex marriage Civil union Registered partnership Domestic partnership Timeline of same-sex marriage Listings by country This box:      Same-sex marriage is a term...

International affairs

Hari has reported from many parts of the world, including Iraq, warzones in the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Central African Republic, the borders of Darfur, Northern Ireland, Israel and the Palestinian territories, Venezuela, Rwanda, Peru and Syria. For other uses, see Darfur (disambiguation). ... Northern Ireland (Irish: ) is a part of the United Kingdom lying in the northeast of the island of Ireland, covering 5,459 square miles (14,139 km², about a sixth of the islands total area). ... This article is about the Palestinian territories as a geopolitical phenomenon. ...

Hari reported from the war in the Democratic Republic of Congo, sending reports from Bukavu, Sud-Kivu, as well as Kinshasa.^[11] He alleged that the Rwandan government invaded to secure economic resources and that the succeeding invasions were effectively by "armies of business" selling Congo's resources to the West. Combatants Democratic Republic of the Congo, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Angola, Chad, Mai-Mai, Hutu-aligned forces Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Movement for the Liberation of Congo Congolese Rally for Democracy Tutsi-aligned forces Commanders Laurent-Désiré Kabila (Congo), Joseph Kabila (Congo), Sam Nujoma Robert Mugabe José Eduardo dos Santos Idriss D... Bukavu is a city in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, lying at the southern end of Lake Kivu, west of Cyangugu in Rwanda. ... Sud-Kivu is a province of the Democratic Republic of Congo. ... Kinshasa (formerly Léopoldville or, before 1960, also Leopoldstad) is the capital and largest city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. ...

He has reported from Israel and Palestine, and argued for a two-state solution along the 1967 borders. He has been very critical of Israel's on-going occupation, which he calls "murderous" and argues contains "ethnic cleansing". He is also critical of Hamas [9]. An array of right-wing Zionist organisations have criticised his arguments. [10] [11] [12] The two-state solution is the name for a class of proposed resolutions of the long-running Arab-Israeli conflict now explicitly backed by the Israeli and United States governments. ... Year 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the 1967 Gregorian calendar. ... Hamas (Arabic: ; acronym: Arabic: , or Harakat al-Muqawama al-Islamiyya or Islamic Resistance Movement,[1]) is a Palestinian Sunni Muslim militant organization. ...

Hari has criticised the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank for forcing undemocratic, neoliberal economics on poor countries^[12] “IMF” redirects here. ... The World Bank (the Bank), a part of the World Bank Group (WBG), was formally established on December 27, 1945, following the ratification of the Bretton Woods agreement. ... The term neoliberalism is used to describe a political-economic philosophy that had major implications for government policies beginning in the 1970s &#8211; and increasingly prominent since 1980 &#8211; that de-emphasizes or rejects positive government intervention in the economy, focusing instead on achieving progress and even social justice by...

He has written that nuclear disarmament is a vital issue. He argues it is more important now than during the Cold War, because "cold wars are proliferating across the world's hot spots". ^[13] He believes the solution is global disarmament in line with the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.[13] U.S. and USSR/Russian nuclear weapons stockpiles, 1945-2006 Nuclear disarmament is the proposed dismantling of nuclear weapons, particularly those of the United States and the Soviet Union (later Russia) targeted on each other. ... Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Opened for signature July 1, 1968 in New York Entered into force March 5, 1970 Conditions for entry into force Ratification by the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, the United States, and 40 other signatory states. ...

He has reported from Venezuela's barrios and interviewed Hugo Chavez, whose government he broadly supports. [14] President Hugo Chávez Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías (born July 28, 1954) has been the President of Venezuela since 1999. ...

Hari reported from the wars in the Central African Republic, dubbing it "France's secret war in Africa." He argued France has been using the country as a military base in Central Africa from which to pillage resources in the region and to support the Rwandan genocide. [15]

He was a prominent left-wing supporter of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, for which he was criticised by many in the anti-war movement, including the media monitoring group Medialens, and Noam Chomsky.^{[14][15][16][17]}Although he always described the arguments about Weapons of Mass Destruction as "bogus", he thought after visiting Iraq and interviewing Iraqi refugees that "anything would be better than Saddam and his sons ruling onto the far horizon." Hari later said his support had been a 'terrible mistake', arguing that he "should have known all along" that the Bush administration was motivated by oil and could not be trusted to topple a dictator.^[18]. He has been very critical of the structural adjustment programme imposed on the country after the war, the use of torture, and of the legal immunity granted to private military contractors [16]. He argues that the occupying forces need to be withdrawn imminently and replaced with a stabilisation force comprised of armies from Arab and Muslim countries. [17] This article is about the 2003 invasion of Iraq. ... The global peace movement refers to a sense of common purpose among organizations that seek to end wars and minimize inter-human violence, usually through pacifism, non-violent resistance, diplomacy, boycott, moral purchasing and demonstrating. ... MediaLens is a media analysis website based in the United Kingdom. ... Avram Noam Chomsky (Hebrew: אברם נועם חומסקי Yiddish: אברם נועם כאמסקי) (born December 7, 1928) is an American linguist, philosopher, political activist, author, and lecturer. ... Synthetic motor oil An oil is any substance that is in a viscous liquid state (oily) at ambient temperatures or slightly warmer, and is both hydrophobic (immiscible with water, literally water fearing) and lipophilic (miscible with other oils, literally fat loving). This general definition includes compound classes with otherwise unrelated...

He writes regularly that global warming poses an imminent threat to the viability of human life. He argues there is an urgent need for much greater regulation of the oil industry, and a "Manhattan Project" to develop better renewable energy sources.^[19][20] Hari attributed Hurricane Katrina to man-made global warming, which attracted some criticism.^[21] Global warming refers to the increase in the average temperature of the Earths near-surface air and oceans in recent decades and its projected continuation. ... The Oil industry brings to market what is currently considered the lifeblood of nearly all other industry, if not industrialized civilization itself. ... This article is about the Atlantic hurricane of 2005. ...

Views on the Enlightenment and religion

Hari has defended rationalism and what he sees as Enlightenment values, which he believes are under attack from several angles.^[22] He has written in favour of absolute free speech^[23] and against alternative medicine.^[24] He has been shortlisted for the title of Britain's Secularist of the Year. [18] Freedom of speech is the right to freely say what one pleases, as well as the related right to hear what others have stated. ...

Hari is a self-described antitheist,^[25] and has criticised Buddhism, Islam^[26], Judaism and Christianity, along with other religions. He has criticised the Catholic Church's stance on birth control^[27] and Islamist attitudes towards women.^[28] He has even earned a personal retort from the Dalai Lama. [19] He has praised Richard Dawkins, whose views are similar to his own. [20] This page is a candidate to be copied to Wiktionary. ... Image:Buddhasunset crop. ... For people named Islam, see Islam (name). ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Topics in Christianity Movements · Denominations · Other religions Ecumenism · Preaching · Prayer Music · Liturgy · Calendar Symbols · Art · Criticism Important figures Apostle Paul · Church Fathers Constantine · Athanasius · Augustine Anselm · Aquinas · Palamas · Luther Calvin · Wesley Arius · Marcion of Sinope Archbishop of Canterbury · Catholic Pope Coptic Pope · Ecumenical Patriarch Christianity Portal This box:      Christianity is... The name Catholic Church can mean a visible organization that refers to itself as Catholic, or the invisible Christian Church, viz. ... For other uses, see Birth control (disambiguation). ...

He has critically interviewed Antonio Negri and Jacques Derrida, as he argues that postmodernist ideas are false and can be used to support religious fundamentalist or rightwing nationalist viewpoints. ^[29] Antonio Toni Negri (born August 1, 1933) is an Italian Marxist political philosopher. ... Jacques Derrida (IPA: [1]) (July 15, 1930 – October 8, 2004) was an Algerian-born French philosopher, known as the founder of deconstruction. ... Postmodernism (sometimes abbreviated pomo) is a term applied to a wide-ranging set of developments in critical theory, philosophy, architecture, art, literature, and culture, which are generally characterized as either emerging from, in reaction to, or superseding, modernism. ... Fundamentalism is a movement to maintain strict adherence to founding principles. ... Nationalism is an ideology that creates and sustains a nation as a concept of a common identity for groups of humans. ...

Public disagreements

With George Galloway

Hari has engaged in a long disagreement with his Member of Parliament, George Galloway who he accused of "supporting a string of dictators" and being a remnant of the part of the left that supported Stalinism.^[30] Galloway contested this. George Galloway,. (born 16 August 1954 in Dundee) is a Scottish politician and author noted for his left-wing views, confrontational style, and rhetorical skill. ... For architecture, see Stalinist architecture. ...

With Nick Cohen

In 2007 Hari reviewed Nick Cohen's book What's Left in the American Dissent magazine, where he called for Cohen and others (like Hari himself) who supported the Iraq war from a left-wing perspective to admit they had been wrong and had profoundly misunderstood neoconservatism.^[31] Cohen argued that Hari's review did not accurately represent his book, and that Hari had instead attacked "a fairy tale, which no one has written or could write".^[32] Hari called this response "bizarre" and offered quotes from Cohen which he argued backed up his claims, accusing Cohen of "a baffling denial of his own words". [21] Nick Cohen is a British journalist, author, and political commentator. ... Dissent Magazine is a left-wing magazine that was started in 1954 by Irving Howe and Lewis Coser. ...

With Niall Ferguson and Andrew Roberts

In 2006, Hari engaged in a public debate with the historians Niall Ferguson and Lawrence James in The Sunday Times, Daily Mail and The Independent, about the overall effect of the British Empire in India. Ferguson viewed British colonialism as a positive thing for India, Hari argued that the British Empire was a form of totalitarianism comparable to Stalinism.^{[33][34][35][36]} He later argued with Andrew Roberts about similar issues in the pages of The New Republic after Roberts was welcomed into the Oval Office by George W. Bush. [22] Niall Ferguson Niall Ferguson (b. ... Lawrence James Lawrence James is a British writer and historian. ... The Sunday Times is a Sunday broadsheet newspaper distributed in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland, published by Times Newspapers Ltd, a subsidiary of News International which is in turn owned by News Corporation. ... The Daily Mail is a British newspaper and the oldest tabloid, first published in 1896. ... For other uses, see The Independent (disambiguation). ... The British Empire in 1897, marked in pink, the traditional colour for Imperial British dominions on maps. ... Andrew Roberts (born on January 13, 1963) is a British conservative, writer of historical biographies and journalist. ... For other uses, see New Republic. ...

Other writing and work

Hari is also the author of a book about the British monarchy which called for a republic, God Save the Queen?, and a play called Going Down in History. The performance of the latter at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival was greeted with positive reviews, most notably by the Daily Telegraph as the work of "the new David Hare".^[37] This article is about the monarchy of the United Kingdom, one of sixteen that share a common monarch; for information about this constitutional relationship, see Commonwealth realm; for information on the reigning monarch, see Elizabeth II. For information about other Commonwealth realm monarchies, as well as other relevant articles, see... Look up republic in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Categories: Festival stubs | Edinburgh ... Sir David Hare (born June 5, 1947) is an English dramatist and director. ...

Awards

• Amnesty International National Newspaper Journalist of the Year Media Award 2007
• One of Debrett's 'People of the Year' 2007
• Short-listed for the Orwell Prize 2005
• 'Young Journalist of the Year' by the Press Gazette 2003
• 'Student Journalist of the Year' by the Times 2000

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References

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External links

• JohannHari.com Official website, featuring an archive of his writings.
• Articles for the Independent
• Interview with Johann Hari on Resonance FM's Little Atoms chat show.
• Profile of Hari from Channel Four
• Sourcewatch analysis of Hari's journalism.
• Hari discussing Congo on Democracy Now
• Commentary on Interview with Hari
• Sudan Tribune article about Hari's commentary on the role of corporations in Darfur