At 88 years old, Hersh has not lost a milligram of moxie, and for the most part is content to walk one of his peers through his highs and lows (both Poitras and Hersh have won a Pulitzer Prize and George Polk award over their careers) during the back half of the twentieth century in Vietnam to the front half of the twenty-first century of Russia new war. From Watergate (running solo but in parallel with Woodward & Bernstein), to American use of torture in Iraq, and The Abu Ghraib photos, to corporate America (a Gulf+Western corporate scandal which eventually cost him his job at the New York Times), the many dirty deeds from the CIA (exposing “Family Jewels” as a code for all their litany of scandals over the years), right up to modern day wars in Gaza, and Russia. As the USA goes through an exceptionally tough decade of crumbling institutions and lack of global leadership or moral clarity, it is a small comfort to get a refreshing nakedly honest conversation about what is on the table, and what is not on the table, from one of the best mensch watchdogs that the country has ever let off the leash.
Published at: 2025-09-17 20:36:55
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