“It is impossible for any doomed population to grasp how fragile the decayed financial, social and political system is on the eve of implosion.”

Chris Hedges, who writes a regular column for Truthdig.com and who was a foreign correspondent for the New York Times for nearly two decades, returns to the Cambridge Forum in a vigorous attempt to jolt us out of our complacency about the current state of affairs—while there is still time. His latest book is America: The Farewell Tour. In conversation with Christopher Lydon, producer and host of Open Source.