Resistance Is the Supreme Act of Faith

Chris Hedges and Mr. Fish / Truthdig Dec 31, 2018 We can resist the radical evil enveloping our lives and our planet only when we acquire the faith that resistance always weakens the oppressor and empowers the oppressed. Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )

Chris Hedges and Albert Raboteau on ‘American Prophets’ Importance in an Age of Radical Evil (Video)

BLANK Apr 4, 2017 "Many of these prophets stand up against what [Martin Luther King Jr.] called the 'giant triplets' " of racism, extreme consumerism and militarism the professor and author tells Truthdig columnist Hedges. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Dorothy Day: The World Will Be Saved by Beauty

By Elaine Margolin Mar 3, 2017 A granddaughter of the journalist and founder of the Catholic Worker Movement explores the relationship between Day and her only child. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Remembering the Rev. Daniel Berrigan, Jesuit Priest and Peace Activist

Staff / Truthdig May 2, 2016 He was a man of the cloth and a man of letters, but most of all, Berrigan was a man of peace. He was also, as it happened, the man whom Kurt Vonnegut went so far as to call "Jesus as a poet." Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )

No Papal Bull: Francis Hails Peace and the Activists Who Fight for It

By Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan Oct 1, 2015 Pope Francis has left the building. His first trip to the United States created news at every turn. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Pope Francis: He Told Them!

Robert Scheer / Truthdig Sep 25, 2015 The visiting pontiff presents a moral energy that has been largely absent in our political discourse. In light of his comments, much of what we have heard in the presidential campaign now seems tawdry and small. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

The Normal Heart and Nijinsky’s Faun

Scott Tucker / Truthdig Jan 11, 2012 We just lived through a year of uprisings round the world, including the Occupy Wall Street movement. In culture, in science and in politics we have every reason to expect that the opening years of this century will be as dangerous and as transformative as the first decade of the 20th.In culture, in science and in politics we have every reason to expect that the opening years of this century will be as dangerous and as transformative as the first decade of the 20th. Dig deeper ( 11 Min. Read )

Fueling the Fire of Real Change

Chris Hedges / Truthdig Sep 29, 2008 The coals of radical social change smolder among the poor, the homeless and the destitute. As the numbers of disenfranchised dramatically increase, our hope, our only hope, is to connect intimately with the daily injustices visited upon them. Out of this contact we can resurrect, from the ground up, a social ethic, a new movement. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )