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Adam Hochschild

Adam Hochschild, a TomDispatch regular, teaches at the Graduate School of Journalism, University of California at Berkeley. He is the author of 11 books, including King Leopold’s Ghost and Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939. His latest book is American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy’s Forgotten Crisis.

What You Don’t Have and Why

The Never-Ending Impact of a Forgotten Blitzkrieg Against the American Left

By Adam Hochschild On October 6, 2022On October 6, 2022

When “Fake News” Was Banned

An America Trump Might Have Loved

By Adam Hochschild On March 17, 2020On March 17, 2020

A Political 100-Year Flood

Trump’s Venom Against the Media, Immigrants, “Traitors,” and More Is Nothing New

By Adam Hochschild On August 1, 2019On August 1, 2019

Me Tarzan, You Adam

How I Met the Ghosts of My Own Work in a Local Multiplex

By Adam Hochschild On July 19, 2016On July 19, 2016

The Oilman Who Loved Dictators

Or How Texaco Supported Fascism

By Adam Hochschild On March 20, 2016On March 21, 2016

Why No One Remembers the Peacemakers 

Celebrating War Over and Over and Peace Once 

By Adam Hochschild On December 9, 2014On December 9, 2014

Veterans Day, 95 Years On

The Enduring Folly of the Battle of the Somme

By Adam Hochschild On November 10, 2013On November 10, 2013

The Untold War Story — Then and Now

By Adam Hochschild On February 26, 2012On May 15, 2021

Where Have All the Graveyards Gone?

By Adam Hochschild On May 3, 2011On May 15, 2021

Adam Hochschild, Over the Top in Iraq

By Adam Hochschild On January 21, 2007On February 17, 2021

Adam Hochschild on hubris and the pseudostate

By Adam Hochschild On June 27, 2004On February 17, 2021

Adam Hochschild, History to the rescue

By Adam Hochschild On January 22, 2004On November 29, 2010

Adam Hochschild on ending the Age of Human Rights

By Adam Hochschild On March 22, 2003On November 30, 2010

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