America's Missing Liberal Class

Book Review
The Death of the Liberal Class
Copyright 2010 by Chris Hedges.
Nation Books, New York, New York
ISBN 978-1-56858-644-1

In his latest book, Chris Hedges explains how the United States is descending--or has descended- into a neo-feudal state controlled by corporations. Today, big corporations are America's royal family, so to speak. Liberals discover that speaking against corporate America is equivalent to speaking against the king. Hedges makes the case that liberals, in order to avoid being rejected by the power elite, compromise to the point of being totally ineffectual as a counterweight to the influence of the big corporations.

I found the section on the art world especially worthy of note since I studied art in college. Hedges' insights into the power elite's control of the art world are accurate but surprising to people on the periphery of that influential community.

Chris Hedges, a former journalist at the New York Times and a Pulitzer Prize winner, has also written the following books:

Empire of Illusion (2009)
Collateral Damage (2008)
I Don't Believe in Atheists (2008)
American Fascists (2007)
Losing Moses on the Freeway (2005)
What Every Person Should Know About War (2003)
War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning (2002)

(The following link goes to the book at Amazon.)

Death of the Liberal Class