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Chris Hedges

Disciplines:
journalism
cultural criticism/political criticism

Summary

American journalist and former New York Times war correspondent who became a prominent left-wing critic of corporate media, American imperialism, and the liberal class.

Core Contribution

War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning: a journalist's account of war's seductive power and its moral corruption. Death of the Liberal Class: the liberal establishment's capitulation to corporate power. American Fascists: the Christian Right and theocratic politics. His firing from the New York Times for an anti-Iraq War speech.

Notable Works & Achievements

War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning

Death of the Liberal Class

American Fascists

Historical Influences

I.F. Stone Reinhold Niebuhr

Intellectual Lineage

War CorrespondenceLeft Journalism

Contemporaries & Peers

Glenn Greenwald Jeremy Scahill

Minds Influenced

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Intellectual Posterity

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