Joseph Nevins, a research fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, is the author of Operation Gatekeeper: The Rise of the Illegal Alien and the Making of the U.S.-Mexico Boundary (Routledge). He is currently working on a book about East Timor’s ground zero in 1999.
They say that war is hell, and Chris Hedges shows us how and why. Hedges’s War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning painfully and profoundly illustrates how violent conflict destroys those i