Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges discusses his latest book, Death of the Liberal Class.

A lucid and disturbing look inside America’s fallen liberal institutions, Death of the Liberal Class examines the collapse of the press, universities, and trade unions as effective counterweights to the corporate state. This imbalance of power has permitted a new political configuration that has left the poor, the working class, and even the middle class without a champion.

Hedges is a senior fellow at The Nation Institute and former Middle East bureau chief for The New York Times.