Saying Goodbye to Sam

Chris Hedges / Truthdig Oct 28, 2019 Samuel Hynes was a professor, a decorated Marine and an important writer on war and its horrors. But to me, most of all, he was a friend. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )

Protest Alone Won’t Save Our Planet

Paul Street / Truthdig Sep 27, 2019 If we fail to rebel radically and persistently, we will pass from the earth, killed off by our failure to confront our ruling class.   Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

How a 19th-Century Whaleship Can Save the ‘White Working Class’

Paul Street / Truthdig Oct 18, 2017 The story of the Essex—rooted in racialized ignorance and fear—offers a valuable lesson in survival for contemporary America. Dig deeper ( 12 Min. Read )

Obamacare

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Obamacare Target

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The Myth of Human Progress and the Collapse of Complex Societies (VIDEO)

Chris Hedges / Truthdig Apr 14, 2014 In "Moby Dick," Herman Melville makes our murderous obsessions, our hubris, violent impulses, moral weakness and inevitable self-destruction visible in his chronicle of a whaling voyage. He is our foremost oracle. Dig deeper ( 26 Min. Read )

The Myth of Human Progress and the Collapse of Complex Societies

BLANK Jan 27, 2014 Chris Hedges takes a page from "Moby Dick" in this speech, in which he sketches out a cautionary tale about the American character and, by extension, the ultimate fate of the human race. Chris Hedges takes a page from "Moby Dick" in this speech, in part a cautionary tale about the American character and, by extension, a broader warning about the fate of the human race. Dig deeper ( 26 Min. Read )

Chris Hedges: Flee Society’s Dazzling and Deadly Fantasies

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Jul 21, 2013 The American people's collective inability to overcome commercial illusion and confront the grim realities of the economic and environmental crises means they will remain slaves to fiction and its apocalyptic outcomes, Truthdig columnist Chris Hedges told Paul Jay on The Real News Network's new show, "Reality Asserts Itself." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Chris Hedges and Herman Melville Assault the Fruits of ‘Enlightenment’

BLANK Jul 20, 2013 A description of the lives of Polynesian islanders in Melville's book "Typee" shows that the inhumanities of capitalism visible today and constantly attacked by Truthdig columnist Chris Hedges were plainly recognized in American literature of the mid-19th century. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

We Are All Aboard the Pequod

Chris Hedges / Truthdig Jul 8, 2013 Herman Melville’s "Moby Dick" is a portrait of the American character, and like the crew of Ahab's ship we are complicit in self-annihilation. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )

The (Less Than) Eternal Sea

By Lewis Lapham, TomDispatch Jun 4, 2013 Happily aloft in the vicinity of my father’s hat, and the weather having cleared since the Ohioan missed its compass heading, I was free to form my earliest impression of the sea at a safe and sunny distance, lulled by the sound of waves breaking on the beach, delighting in the drift of gulls in a bright blue sky. Dig deeper ( 14 Min. Read )