Christian Parenti is an American investigative journalist and author. His books include Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis (2000) and Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence (2011).
Christian Parenti
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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 […]
