Hedges, Chris

Explores humanity's love affair with war, discussing how war becomes an emotionally intense and even exhilarating experience for civilians and soldiers alike.

Analyzes twenty-first-century culture and society, describing two factions--one that functions within a literate, print-based world, and another that embraces fantasy, magic, and illusion--and discusses professional wrestling, pornography, the mass media, corporations, the American government, and more.

Former foreign correspondent and the Nation Institute fellow Chris Hedges examines why he believes liberal institutions have fallen and failed to protect ordinary citizens.

Explores crime-ridden poverty enclaves in America.

Presents the argument that the "Christian Right" of the United States of America, such as the likes of Pat Robertson and the Trinity Broadcast Network, has become fascist in its desire to make America into a Christian nation. Also argues that the Christian Right is not, in fact, Christian, and is driven more by political power than by anything in the Bible.

Explores crime-ridden poverty enclaves in in America.

Drawing on two decades of experience as a war correspondent and based on his numerous columns for Truthdig, Chris Hedges presents The World As It Is, a panorama of the American empire at home and abroad, from the coarsening effect of America's War on Terror to the front lines in the Middle East and South Asia and the continuing Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Underlying his reportage is a constant struggle with the nature of war and its impact on human civilization. "War is always about betrayal," Hedges notes. "It is about betrayal of the young by the old, of cynics by idealists, and of soldiers and Marines by politicians. Society's institutions, including our religious institutions, which mold us into compliant citizens, are unmasked.

Presents the argument that both atheists and religious fundamentalists promote their own agendas, and that the new atheists' thinking is equally fundamental and divisive in America, where moderate perspectives are marginalized.