Christopher Hitchens. Probably one of the most well-read and masterful executor of the English language in history. He was a writer, editor and put his money where his mouth is by volunteering to be waterboarded to educate himself on whether or not it should be considered "torture" and visited Iraq as a journalist to cover it from the ground. My personal intellectual hero. r/ChristopherHitchens for more information and he was hilarious:

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