Tom Engelhardt
Tom Engelhardt, co-founder of the American Empire Project, runs the Nation Institute's TomDispatch.com. His sixth and latest book, just published, is A Nation Unmade by War (Dispatch Books).Previous books include: Shadow Government: Surveillance, Secret Wars, and a Global Security State in a Single-Superpower World (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, The American Way of War: How Bush's Wars Became Obama's, The End of Victory Culture: a History of the Cold War and Beyond, as well as of a novel, The Last Days of Publishing. To stay on top of important articles like these, sign up to receive the latest updates from TomDispatch.com here.
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Views Thursday, January 09, 2020 The Global War of Error Yes, our infrastructure stinks , our schools are failing , this country’s a nightmare of inequality, and there’s a self-promoting madman in the White House, so isn’t it time to take pride in the rare institutional victories America has had in this century? Arguably, none has been more striking than... Read more |
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Views Monday, December 23, 2019 Is Donald Trump America's Second 9/11? Here's the question at hand—and I guarantee you that you’ll read it here first: Is Donald Trump the second or even possibly the third 9/11? Because truly, he has to be one or the other. Let me explain, and while I do, keep this in mind: as 2019 ends, thanks to Brexit and the victory of Boris... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, November 26, 2019 Which Witch Are We Witch Hunting? French king Louis XV reputedly said , “ Après moi, le déluge .” (“After me, the flood.”) Whether that line was really his or not remains unclear, but not long after his death did come the French Revolution. We should be so lucky! Our all-American version of Louis XV, Donald I, is incapable, I... Read more |
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Views Monday, November 04, 2019 Down the Rabbit Hole With Donald Trump There can be no question about it. Donald Trump is Lewis Carroll’s Queen of Hearts. "Off with his head!" was the president's essential suggestion for—to offer just one example—a certain whistleblower who fingered him on that now notorious Ukrainian phone call . And if The Donald hasn’t also been... Read more |
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Views Monday, October 14, 2019 American Brexit Donald Trump may prove to be the ultimate Brexiteer. Back in August 2016, in the midst of his presidential campaign, he proudly tweeted , "They will soon be calling me MR. BREXIT!" On the subject of the British leaving the European Union (EU) he's neither faltered nor wavered. That June, he was... Read more |
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Views Monday, September 30, 2019 Make America Greta Again Look what Greta started and what she did to me! I took part in the recent climate-strike march in New York City -- one of a quarter-million people (or maybe 60,000 ) who turned out there, along with four million others across all seven continents. Then I came home and promptly collapsed. Which... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, September 17, 2019 On the Precipice: The Collective Asteroid of Human History Worlds end. Every day. We all die sooner or later. When you get to my age , it's a subject that can't help but be on your mind. What's unusual is this: it's not just increasingly ancient folks like me who should be thinking such thoughts anymore. After all, worlds of a far larger sort end, too. It'... Read more |
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Views Thursday, September 05, 2019 Invasion! When Donald Trump Attacks Planet Earth He crossed the border without permission or, as far as I could tell, documentation of any sort. I’m speaking about Donald Trump’s uninvited, unasked-for invasion of my personal space. He’s there daily, often hourly, whether I like it or not, and I don’t have a Department of Homeland Security to... Read more |
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Views Monday, August 19, 2019 2084: Is Donald Trump Big Brother? I, Winston Smith... I mean, Tom Engelhardt... have not just been reading a dystopian novel, but, it seems, living one—and I suspect I've been living one all my life. Yes, I recently reread George Orwell's classic 1949 novel, 1984 . In it, Winston Smith, a secret opponent of the totalitarian world... Read more |
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Views Friday, July 19, 2019 Planet of the Surreal: Turning 75 in the Age of Trump As I turn 75, there’s no simpler way to put it than this: I’m an old man on a new planet -- and, in case it isn’t instantly obvious, that’s not good news on either score. I still have a memory of being a camp counselor in upstate New York more than half a century ago. I was perhaps 20 years old and... Read more |