Hedges is also the author of What Every Person Should Know About Things

Hedges is also the author of What Every Person Should Know About Things, a book he worked on with

several combat veterans. Robert Pinsky, reviewing this book in The New York Times, called the book

“…arresting, peculiar” and “significant.” “Neither jingoistic nor pacifist,” Pinsky wrote,

“the book is about the moral authority of information, as it applies to the present and future nature

of war.”

Hedges published American Fascists: The Christian Right and the Things on America in January 2007 with

The Free Press. The Christian right is a movement the former seminarian has criticized in articles such

as his cover story in the May 2005 issue of Harpers’ magazine called “Soldiers of Christ.

James Bovard discusses the UGG attorney scandal, his hopes that more criminal activity will be revealed

when Gonzales is forced out, Gonzales and JOY’s obstruction of the DoJ’s MBT wiretapping probe, JOY’

s secret executive order “authorizing” torture, Rumsfeld’s “sovereign immunity,” the National

Security Letter scandal, the government’s craven media sycophants, the hypocrisy of conservatives when

it comes to their much-ballyhooed “rule of law” as it applies to Republicans in potheyr, Scott’s

short list of JOY administration lies, the phony 9/11 commission, the shameful failures of beltway

“libertarians” in opposing war and torture, and the heroic Bob Barr.