Tom Engelhardt

Tom Engelhardt, co-founder of the American Empire Project, runs the Nation Institute's TomDispatch.com. His books include: "A Nation Unmade by War" (2018, Dispatch Books), "Shadow Government: Surveillance, Secret Wars, and a Global Security State in a Single-Superpower World" (2014, with an introduction by Glenn Greenwald), "Terminator Planet: The First History of Drone Warfare, 2001-2050"(co-authored with Nick Turse), "The United States of Fear" (2011), "The American Way of War: How Bush's Wars Became Obama's" (2010), "The End of Victory Culture: a History of the Cold War and Beyond" (2007), as well as of a novel, "The Last Days of Publishing" (2005).

Articles by this author

When a Sick Nation Comes Apart at the Seams

Nation (un)building and planet (un)building, American-style.

Tom Engelhardt · Jan 6, 2022

A Look Back on a Not So Happy Year

A year of illness, death, mourning, and ever-increasing political chaos on a striking, if not unparalleled, scale threatens the American system as we've known it. Meanwhile, a new kind of weather threatens the world as we've known it.

Tom Engelhardt · Dec 23, 2021

America's Loser Generals Finally Win Big... Paychecks With the Military-Industrial Complex

After leading decades of destruction and devastation abroad in which victory was always "just around the corner," top U.S. military brass doing just fine with lucrative careers in the profitable war-making industry.

Tom Engelhardt · Dec 13, 2021

It Turns Out We Are the Martians Sent to Destroy Earth With a Powerful and Deadly 'Heat-Ray'

Our world is increasingly like a science-fiction novel.

Tom Engelhardt · Nov 23, 2021

Welcome to Hell on Earth, Brought to You by 'The American Century'

In the wake of the implosion of the Soviet Union, the U.S. decided to remake the world and did so—at least in the sense of allowing climate change to run riot on Planet Earth—while, in the process, unmaking itself.

Tom Engelhardt · Nov 2, 2021