Chris Hedges

International bestseller and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Chris Hedges returns to the Festival with Death of the Liberal Class and The World As It Is . Hedges argues there are five pillars of the American liberal establishment—the press, liberal religious institutions, labor unions, universities and ... (more)the Democratic Party—and that each of these institutions, more concerned with status and privilege than justice and progress, sold out the constituents they represented. In doing so, the liberal class has become irrelevant to society at large and ultimately the corporate power elite they once served. Join us for an examination of the declining liberal class and the American empire at home and abroad, from the coarsening effect of America’s War on Terror to the front lines in the Middle East and South Asia and the continuing Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Tickets $15 general / $10 reduced. Free for festival members.

The NYC launch for author Chris Hedges' new book, The Death of the Liberal Class, will be a benefit evening for Revolution Books. Hedges will speak and there will conversation with the audience. Proceeds from the evening go towards the 2010 Fund Drive to Save Revolution Books. Hedges, currently a senior ... (more)fellow at The Nation Institute and Anschutz Distinguished Fellow at Princeton University, spent nearly 2 decades as a foreign correspondent in Central America, the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans, reporting for The Christian Science Monitor, National Public Radio, The Dallas Morning News and The New York Times. He is the author of many books, including Empire of Illusion and American Fascists. Tickets: $15 ($5 students with ID) $35 with book Available at Revolution Books, and by phone or online.

Tickets are $5 at www.brownpapertickets.com or 800/838-3006, and at the door beginning at 6:30 pm. Town Hall members receive priority seating.

Reviewing Religion meets from 6:30 till 8:00. This month they will continue discussing "American Fascists" by Chris Hedges.

Bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges (War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning) and journalist Laila Al-Arian spent several months interviewing Iraqi war veterans to expose the patterns of the occupation and how Iraqi civilians are affected.

War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning by Chris Hedges will be our book pick for this month. Hedges writes about how war works and why we can't seem to find lasting peace. Hedges is a veteran war correspondent with a unique and important perspective to tell.

6:30 PM - 8PM Chris Hedges and Laila Al-Arian will sign and discuss "COLLATERAL DAMAGE: America's War Against Iraqi Civilians". (busboysandpoets.com)

Chris Hedges, Senior Fellow, The Nation Institute, explores the extreme sides of the religious spectrum. Hedges believes that religion, at its best, struggles with the transcendent forces in life and seeks to promote an ethic of compassion and justice. Yet, he argues religion has been distorted, especially ... (more)by fundamentalists, to promote intolerance, exclusion and violence.

Free for members, $15 for non-members, $5 for students

"Chris Hedges, the author of American Fascists and War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning, will read from and sign I
Don’t Believe in Atheists."

"Harvard Book Store is pleased to host Pulitzer Prize-winning human-rights journalist CHRIS HEDGES who looks at the state of the battle about faith in America in his new book. ..."

Hedges recasts the arguments with several parties to the debate over religion in America. While he objects to religious fundamentalists who take faith as their prerogative, he is equally skeptical of 'new atheists' like Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, and Sam Harris, who brand all religious belief ... (more)as dangerous and put their faith in the morally neutral disciplines of reason and science." (Politics & Prose website)

The author discusses and signs his book. (The Washington Post Book World)