Letter

In response to The martyrdom of Charlie Kirk

America, truly the 'farewell tour'

Chris Hedges is one of the most perceptive and concerned observers of US decline. As in his book, America,The Farewell Tour, he makes a compelling case for that decline driven by extremist religious ideologies, rampant individualism and a self-destructive economic ideology.

It is a society with a history of widespread resort to inter-personal violence from its very beginning in the genocide of the native peoples and the enslavement of black Africans for personal gain. Hedges has an almost unique capacity to draw all that history together with the current consequences of it, to make sense of an otherwise chaotic and inexplicable current reality.

He is a leading mind in understanding what drives the inevitable decline of another empire.

— Les Macdonald from Balmain NSW 2041