Photo: Chris Hedges / Attribution (source: Wikimedia Commons)
My Take
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.
1. Profile
- 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 69)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Virgo / Monkey
- Origin
- St. Johnsbury, Vermont, United States
- Occupation
- war correspondent / writer / journalist / speechwriter
2. Background
- University
- Harvard University
Awards & achievements
- PEN Oakland/Censorship Award
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
- Xhttps://x.com/ChrisLynnHedges
- Wikipedia (Japanese)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris%20Hedges
Frequently asked questions
When was Chris Hedges born?
Born September 18, 1956 (age 69).
Where is Chris Hedges from?
Chris Hedges is from St. Johnsbury, Vermont, United States.
What does Chris Hedges do?
Chris Hedges works as war correspondent, writer, journalist, speechwriter.
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-10
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.