Personal Views
Hari has declared his sympathy with the environmental movement, republicanism, and drug legalisation. He is gay and a self-declared secularist and atheist.
Hari supported the 2003 invasion of Iraq, based on a visit to Iraq in December 2002 and a March 2003 story by Kenneth Joseph. In 2006 he reversed this position.
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