New York Times Writer to Speak at Salve

By: Kate Howard
Posted In: News

Chris Hedges, Pulitzer Prize winning war correspondent to the New York Times, will be speaking as part of the Atwood Lecture series at O’Hare on Wednesday, March 24 at 7 p.m.

Hedges will be lecturing on the topic, “Is There Such a Thing as a Just War?” He draws on over 20 years experience as a war journalist including coverage of Persian Gulf, Kosovo, Afghanistan and the most recent war in Iraq.

Hedges’ 2002 book, War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.

“It presents itself as a meditation but winds up being an autobiography of a particularly tormented kind,” said Christopher Caldwell in a 2002 review for Slate. “Hedges believes war breaks every genuinely human bond-every one, without exception.”

He was part of a team of New York Times writers who won the Pulitzer Prize for explanatory journalism after their coverage of terrorism in 2001. In 2003, Hedges also published What Every Person Should Know About War, and he will be available after the lecture to sign his book during a reception.