Chris Hedges has worked as a freelance war correspondent in Central America for The Christian Science Monitor, NPR, and Dallas Morning News. Hedges reported for The New York Times from 1990 to 2005 and served as the Times Middle East Bureau Chief and Balkan Bureau Chief during the wars in the former Yugoslavia. In 2001, Hedges contributed to The New York Times staff entry that received the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for the paper’s coverage of global terrorism.
Hedges produced a weekly column for Truthdig for 14 years until the outlet’s hiatus in 2020. His books include War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning (2002), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction; American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America (2007); Death of the Liberal Class (2010); and Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt (2012), written with cartoonist Joe Sacco.
Hedges hosted the television program On Contact for RT America from 2016 to 2022
Chris Hedges speaks at the First Congregational Church of Oakland on Thursday, May 29th at his book release event sponsored by KPFA, A Genocide Foretold: Reporting on Survival and Resistance in Occupied Palestine. Chris speaks in depth on his recent experience just coming back from Egypt and speaking to Palestinian refugees there and so much … Continued
Hedges on the historical context of Israel/Palestine conflict from January 2024.
Chris Hedges at the First Congregational Church of Berkeley, September 27th, 2022 on his latest book, The Greatest Evil is War. 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 … Continued
With the election over, it’s the perfect time to get the reliably candid response of one of our few great journalists. “Chris Hedges has been telling truth to (and against) power since his earliest days as a radical journalist. He is an intellectual warrior who confronts American empire in the most incisive, challenging ways. The … Continued
America, The Farewell Tour is a book that should disturb and anger all of us. It is a profoundly sobering, upsetting portrait of our country as it is, not as we wish it to be. The road to taking our country begins with recognizing it for what it is. Chris Hedges shows us in America, … Continued
What are the mechanisms for resistance, given the absence of any authentic democratic institutions and the rapid militarization of the state? “Chris Hedges has been telling truth to (and against) power since his earliest days as a radical journalist. He is an intellectual warrior who confronts American empire in the most incisive, challenging ways. The … Continued
On the most taboo topics in America, by author & publisher David Talbot: “Chris Hedges has been telling truth to (and against) power since his earliest days as a radical journalist. He is an intellectual bomb thrower, who continues to confront American empire in the most incisive, challenging ways. The kinds of insights he provides … Continued
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. In Wages of Rebellion, Chris Hedges – who has chronicled the malaise and sickness of a society in terminal moral … Continued
