Chris Hedges

Chris Hedges is a writer and journalist, and a senior fellow at The Nation Institute in New York City. He is the author of 12 books, including the best-selling Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt (2012), which he cowrote with the cartoonist Joe Sacco. He currently teaches inmates at a maximum-security prison in New Jersey.

Writing on Public Books

Interviews

Melville and American Power: A Conversation with Greg Grandin, Chris Hedges, and Christian Parenti

Greg Grandin’s The Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World explores the extraordinary 1805 slave ship uprising that inspired Herman Melville’s Benito Cereno. In last month’s panel discussion, moderated by Christian Parenti, Grandin and Chris Hedges peel back the event’s dramatic layers to examine the paradoxes of freedom and slavery. Christian Parenti […]