Chris Hedges

Chris Hedges occupies a category I find increasingly endangered: the moral witness. Most war correspondents either burn out or harden into cynics; Hedges instead turned his frontline years in Central America into a sustained ethical argument about what war does to societies and the people who wage it. I do not always agree with his conclusions, and his pessimism can feel totalizing, but I trust his starting point because he paid for it in person. The mix of divinity training and battlefield reporting gives his prose a sermon's cadence and a dispatch's specificity. That prickly, unfashionable voice is exactly the kind worth keeping around.

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Name (English)

Chris Hedges

Name (Japanese)

クリス・ヘッジズ

Reading

くりす・へっじず

Born

September 18, 1956 (age 70)

Origin

St. Johnsbury, Vermont, United States

Occupation

war correspondent / writer / journalist / speechwriter

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Monkey

University

Harvard University

Awards & achievements

• PEN Oakland/Censorship Award

• Xhttps://x.com/ChrisLynnHedges
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris%20Hedges
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1274616

Tags

• Vermont
• war correspondent
• writer
• journalist

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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