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Chris Hedges on the ‘Disintegrated’ Media, Cultural Illiteracy

In case it wasn’t clear from his columns, Chris Hedges is not optimistic about the state of American media and chagrined by the future of a culture in which “people don’t read anymore,” as he notes in this interview with Media Roots.

Posted on Mar 16, 2011 READ MORE  |  39 COMMENTS


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Chris Hedges on ‘Illusion,’ Corporatism and Inverted Totalitarianism

In this interview with Vermont Public Radio’s Neal Charnoff, “Empire of Illusion” author and Truthdig columnist Chris Hedges emphasizes what makes his book’s argument different from that of the stereotypical elder who disapproves of emerging artistic and cultural forms: “I’m not attacking culture, I’m attacking corporatism,” he tells Charnoff. (continued)

Posted on Feb 3, 2010 READ MORE  |  5 COMMENTS


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Chris Hedges on Obama, Michael Jackson, ‘Empire of Illusion’

Never one to shrink from a strong debate, “Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle” author and Truthdig columnist Chris Hedges comes out swinging in this lecture recorded last month, giving his audience at the New School in New York City more than a few big ideas to grapple with about our current president, the state of our democracy and the cancer of celebrity culture in contemporary American society.

Posted on Jan 8, 2010 READ MORE  |  29 COMMENTS


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Hedges and Friends Debate Illusion, Conservatism and 9/11

Chris Hedges, George Packer and Sam Tanenhaus mix it up on this Miami Book Fair panel about the fascinating times in which we live. Don’t miss Hedges take on the charge that his lingo is limited to the Harvard set.

Posted on Nov 18, 2009 READ MORE  |  11 COMMENTS



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The Victims of Pornography

Pornography does not promote sex. It promotes masturbation. It promotes the solitary auto-arousal that precludes intimacy and love. Pornography is about getting yourself off at someone else’s expense.

Posted on Oct 11, 2009 READ MORE  |  153 COMMENTS


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Chris Hedges Talks ‘Illusion’ and Morality on GRITtv

Is the unflagging popularity of reality television a sign of the entertainment industry’s relentless reliance on producing fodder for the lowest common denominator—or a symptom, as Truthdig columnist Chris Hedges argues in this clip from “GRITtv With Laura Flanders,” of a society in serious moral decline?

Posted on Jul 31, 2009 READ MORE  |  8 COMMENTS


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