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Chris HedgesSenior FellowHedges is the author of the bestselling War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning (Free Press, 2003), which draws on his experiences to describe the patterns and behavior of nations and individuals in wartime. He is also author of Losing Moses on the Freeway: The 10 Commandments in America (Free Press, 2005) and What Every Person Should Know About War (Free Press, 2003), a book he worked on with several combat veterans. Hedges is also the author of American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America (Free Press, 2007) and Collateral Damage with co-author Laila Al-Arian (Nation Books, 2008). His latest book, Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectable, published by Nation Books, was launched in September 2009. Hedges has a B.A. in English Literature from Colgate University and a Master of Divinity from Harvard Divinity School. He was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard during the academic year of 1998-1999 where he spent a year studying classics. He currently writes for numerous publications including Foreign Affairs, Harper's, The New York Review of Books, Granta and
Mother Jones. Hedges is a former Lecturer in the Council of the Humanities and former Anschutz Distinguished Fellow at Princeton University.
Recent Appearances: Nation Books Event: An Evening with Chris Hedges Democracy Now! True Crimes: The Untold Story Behind the Devastation of Iraq Selected Articles: Fueling the Fire of Real Change Fleecing What's Left of the Treasury For Palin, it's a (Christian) Man's World 'High Wire' by Peter Gosselin The left has lost its nerve and its direction A Conscientious Objection The Other War: Iraq Vets Bear Witness Read the rest of Chris Hedges' columns at Truthdig. Read an excerpt of Chris Hedges' latest book, I Don't Believe in Atheists.
Book Reviews: Book Review: I Don't Believe in Atheists Book Review: American Fascists Browsing Books: Paperback Row |
The Death and Life of American JournalismThe Media Revolution That Will Begin the World Again
Journalism, the counterbalance to corporate and political power, the lifeblood of American democracy, is in meltdown. In The Death and Life of American Journalism, Robert W. McChesney, an academic, and John Nichols, a journalist, who together founded the nation's leading media reform network, Free Press, investigate the crisis. They propose a bold strategy for saving journalism that looks back to how the Founding Fathers ensured free press protection with the First Amendment and provided subsidies to the burgeoning print press of the young nation. "John Nichols and Bob McChesney are the Thomas Paine and Paul Revere of our time. We ignore them at democracy's peril." —Bill Moyers More Welcome to the Saudi Arabia of Coal: Theater PerformanceFebruary 4 - 13 | Across the United States
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