@Phaedrus I haven't take Mr. Hedges seriously since the plagiarism issues came out. I barely took him seriously before then: the first book of his I read was that stupid book about atheism in which he managed to equate all of New Atheism with the views of Christopher Hitchens and a strawman of Sam Harris, while making multiple basic errors in science and terminology along the way.

https://newrepublic.com/article/118114/chris-hedges-pulitzer-winner-lefty-hero-plagiarist