Twenty-five years ago, when Pat Robertson and other radio and televangelists first spoke of the United States becoming a Christian nation that would build a global Christian empire, it was hard to take such hyperbolic rhetoric seriously.

Chris Hedges on American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America.

The Wolfson Center for National Affairs at The New School presents the third in a four-part series of conversations with writers and thinkers who are extending the boundaries of discussion on some of the key public policy issues of today.

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Drawing on the literature of combat, from Homer and Shakespeare to Erich Maria Remarque and Michael Herr, Hedges discusses how human beings are conditioned to embrace what he calls 'the myth of war' -- the idea that combat is noble, selfless, and glorious.

As a veteran war correspondent, Chris Hedges has survived ambushes in Central America, imprisonment in Sudan, and a beating by Saudi military police.

Veteran New York Times correspondent Chris Hedges has covered conflicts in Bosnia, El Salvador and Israel.