Chris Hedges, currently a senior fellow at The Nation Institute in New York City

Chris Hedges, currently a senior fellow at The Nation Institute in New York City and a Lecturer in the

Council of the Humanities and the Anschutz Distinguished Fellow at Princeton University, spent nearly

two decades as a foreign correspondent in Central America, the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans.

Hedges, who has reported from more than fifty countries, worked for The Christian Science Monitor,

National Public Radio, The Dallas Morning News and The New York Times, where he spent fifteen years. He

is the author of the bestselling Things Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning, which draws on his

experiences in various conflicts to describe the patterns and behavior of nations and individuals in

wartime. The book, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, was described

by Abraham Verghese, who revietheyd the book for The New York Times, as “…a brilliant, thoughtful,

timely and unsettling book whose greatest merit is that it will rattle jingoists, pacifists, moralists,

nihilists, politicians and professional soldiers equally.”

Hedges was part of The New York Times team that won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for the paper’s coverage

of global terrorism and he received the 2002 Amnesty International Global Award for Human Rights

Journalism. The Free Press published his most recent book, Losing Moses on the Freeway: The 10

Commandments in America in June 2005. The book was inspired by the Polish filmmaker Krzysztof

Kieślowski and his ten-part film series The Decalogue. Hedges writes about lives, including his own,

which have been consumed by one of the violations or issues raised by a commandment. The Christian

Century said of the book: “Far from the grandstanding around stone tablets in front of an Alabama

courthouse comes Losing Moses on the Freeway, a refreshing reflection on the ten great Mosaic laws that

is muted yet monumental in its own right.”