Chris Hedges

A powerfully moving book giving voice to the poorest among us and laying bare the cruelty of a penal system that too often defines their lives....

We now live in two Americas. One - now the minority - functions in a print-based, literate world that can cope with complexity and can separate illusion from truth. The other - the majority - is retreating from a reality-based world into one of false certainty and magic....

There are two radical and dangerous sides to the debate on faith and religion in America....

Revolutions come in waves and cycles. We are again riding the crest of a revolutionary epic, much like 1848 or 1917, from the Arab Spring to movements against austerity in Greece to the Occupy movement....

Twenty-five years ago, when Pat Robertson and other televangelists first spoke of the United States being a Christian nation, it was hard to take such hyperbolic rhetoric seriously. No more....

A Genocide Foretold confronts the stark realities of life under siege in Gaza and the heroic effort ordinary Palestinians are waging to resist and survive.

Drawing on his own experience and on the literature of combat from Homer to Michael Herr, Hedges shows how war seduces not just those on the front lines but entire societies....

Chris Hedges examines the failure of the liberal class to confront the rise of the corporate state and the consequences of a liberalism that has become profoundly bankrupted....

In fifteen short chapters, Chris Hedges astonishes us with his clear and cogent argument against war, not on philosophical grounds or through moral arguments, but in an irrefutable stream of personal encounters with the victims of war....

Chris Hedges on the most taboo topics in America, with David Talbot....

A profound and provocative examination of America in crisis, where unemployment, deindustrialization, and a bitter hopelessness and malaise have resulted in an epidemic of diseases of despair - drug abuse, suicide, xenophobia, and a culture of sadism and hate....

Hedges and Al-Arian spent several months interviewing Iraqi war veterans to expose the patterns of the occupation and how it affects Iraqi civilians....

The globally renowned Pulitzer Prize winner gives us an entirely new view of a nation in crisis in a stunning book that holds both liberals and conservatives to account - as rousingly pertinent for Canada as for the disoriented US....

A haunting and powerfully moving book, Our Class gives voice to the poorest among us and lays bare the cruelty of a penal system that too often defines their lives....

In America: The Farewell Tour, Hedges argues that neither political party, now captured by corporate power, addresses the systemic problem. Until our corporate coup d’état is reversed, these diseases will grow and ravage the country....