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Chris Hedges

クリス・ヘッジズ　/　くりす・へっじず

American war correspondent

September 18, 1956 (age 69)　・　St. Johnsbury, Vermont, United States

Vermont
war correspondent
writer
journalist

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.

Overview

Christopher Lynn Hedges (born September 18, 1956) is an American journalist, author, commentator and Presbyterian minister. In his early career, Hedges worked as a freelance war correspondent in Central America for The Christian Science Monitor, NPR, and The Dallas Morning News.

Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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
Blood type: Private
Height: Private
Agency: Private
Occupation: war correspondent / writer / journalist / speechwriter

2. Background

Elementary school: Private
Junior high: Private
High school: Private
University: Harvard University

Awards & achievements

PEN Oakland/Censorship Award

3. Relationships

Spouse: Private
Children: Private
Parents: Private
Siblings: Private

4. Personality

Motto

Private

6. Links

Xhttps://x.com/ChrisLynnHedges
Wikipedia (Japanese)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris%20Hedges

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