Chris Hedges writes a weekly opinion column for Truthdig. He has written 12 books, including the New York Times best-seller “Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt” (2012), which he co-authored with the…
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Chris Hedges writes a weekly opinion column for Truthdig. He has written 12 books, including the New York Times best-seller “Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt” (2012), which he co-authored with the cartoonist Joe Sacco. Currently, he hosts an interview show, "On Contact," on RT America.
Hedges spent nearly two decades as a foreign correspondent in Central America, the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans. He has reported for The Christian Science Monitor, National Public Radio, The Dallas Morning News and The New York Times. Hedges was part of a New York Times team of reporters awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 2002 for coverage of global terrorism. He also received the Amnesty International Global Award for Human Rights Journalism in 2002.
Hedges was born in St. Johnsbury, VT, and attended Eaglebrook School, a private boarding school in Deerfield, MA. His father was a Presbyterian minister in upstate New York. Hedges holds a B.A. in English literature from Colgate University and a Master of Divinity degree from Harvard University. He spent a year studying classics at Harvard as a Nieman Fellow.
In 2014 he was ordained as a minister for social witness in a ceremony at the Second Presbyterian Church in Elizabeth, NJ. The ordination was approved for his work in New Jersey prisons, where over the past decade Hedges has taught college credit courses for inmates.
Hedges is married to Truthdig Book Editor and Canadian actress Eunice Wong. They live in Princeton, NJ.
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Chris Hedges / Columnist
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