I always feel terrible after reading Chris Hedges, but this is why I read him. It’s well enough to see any number of New York Times Bestsellers in nonfiction which are typically just your Founding Father of the Week or reactionary propaganda written in a sickening love for the status quo in a man...
I'm a little torn on this book. On the one hand, Hedges is a good writer, with a journalist's eye for details that results in a very compelling story. On the other hand, his impulse is always to swing for the fences. So when he talks about people, they end up coming across as either saints, si...
A powerful indictment. Hedges and graphic novelist Joe Sacco profile four of the most beat-up places in America: Camden, N.J.; the farm-migrant country of Florida; the Pine Ridge Reservation, and the strip-mine coal country of West Virginia — all scenes of terrible exploitation. Hedges is an unsu...
Depressing. There is just no other word for it.Hedges argues that the pillars of Liberal Class has been co-opted by the corporate and no longer serve the purpose of providing legitimacy to the democratic state. Using WWI as a starting point, he lays out very well thought out argument that we are ...
Curious title, isn't it? If war is a force that gives us meaning, how does it give us meaning? The answer lies in the underlying myth that supports it, and has supported it, from the dawn of the human species. This is the Warrior Myth, and it is part of every culture and society. We see it in fam...
The disastrous economic and political experiment that attempted to organize human behavior around the dictates of the global marketplace has failed. The promised prosperity that was to have raised the living standards of workers through trickle-down economics has been exposed as a lie. A tiny glo...
The new pornography is left-wing; and the new pornography is a vast graveyard where the Left has gone to die. The Left cannot have its whores and its politics too. —ANDREA DWORKIN, Pornography: Men Possessing Women THE PINK CROSS BOOTH has a table of anti-porn tracts and is set up in the far c...
