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CHRIS HEDGES: “Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle”

Web ExclusiveDecember 18, 2009
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    Journalist Chris Hedges discusses his recent book “Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle” at the New School in New York.

    Chris Hedges is a senior fellow at the Nation Institute. His writing appears regularly in Foreign Affairs, Harper’s, the New York Review of Books, Mother Jones, among other publications.

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