Freedom of speech in America is being employed today for many platforms, both pro- and anti-religious. Chris Hedges was part of the Pulitzer Prize winning team for Explanatory Reporting on global terrorism, and now he turns his attention towards extremism in atheism. But Hedges doesn't let Christians off easy either; his attacks are evenly meted out on the secular fundamentalists (or 'New Atheists', such as Christopher Hitchens and Sam Harris) and religious fundamentalists, even siding with the atheists on the issue of evolution vs. biblical creationism. Using the term 'fundamentalism' in its modern sense of 'religious extremism', Hedges examines the similarities between these two disparate strains of religious thought.
