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Tom Engelhardt

Tom Engelhardt created and runs the website TomDispatch.com. He was also a co-founder of the American Empire Project and the author of a highly praised history of American triumphalism in the Cold War, The End of Victory Culture.  A fellow of the Type Media Center, his sixth book is A Nation Unmade by War.

Prophecies, Then and Now

My Life at World’s End

By Tom Engelhardt On March 23, 2023On March 28, 2023

McCarthyism, Then and Now

And the (True) One-Party State in America

By Tom Engelhardt On February 21, 2023On February 21, 2023

Old News in a New Year

The Inflation and Deflation Stories of Our Lifetime (and No, They’re Not the Ones You Think!)

By Tom Engelhardt On January 5, 2023On January 5, 2023

The World Needs TD — and We Need Your Help

By Tom Engelhardt On December 12, 2022On December 13, 2022

Terracide and the Terrarists

Destroying the Planet for Record Profits

By Tom Engelhardt On December 11, 2022On December 11, 2022

Future Heat Wave?

When Will Climate Change Become the Crucial Issue in American Elections?

By Tom Engelhardt On November 20, 2022On November 23, 2022

An Obituary for Our World

And I’m Not Kidding!

By Tom Engelhardt On November 1, 2022On November 1, 2022

Burning Books (or Rather Book Companies)

Looking Back on My Years in — And out of — Publishing

By Tom Engelhardt On September 27, 2022On September 27, 2022

Living in a Sci-fi World

How the American Dream Became the American Scream

By Tom Engelhardt On August 28, 2022On September 6, 2022

The Decline and Fall of Everything (Including Me)

What Goes Up Must… Well, You Know…

By Tom Engelhardt On August 11, 2022On August 11, 2022

Extreme Life

Or World War III (IV and V), Climate-Style

By Tom Engelhardt On July 5, 2022On July 5, 2022

Blowback for the Twenty-First Century

Remembering Chalmers Johnson

By Tom Engelhardt On June 5, 2022On June 5, 2022

Requiem for the Home Front

A Cheer for Irma the Caricaturist

By Tom Engelhardt On May 1, 2022On May 1, 2022

A Duck-and-Cover World?

Welcome to the Ukraine Moment

By Tom Engelhardt On April 24, 2022On April 24, 2022

“Bride and Boom!”

We’re Number One… In Obliterating Wedding Parties

By Tom Engelhardt On April 10, 2022On April 11, 2022

Ukraine in Perspective

A Historical Feast of Death and Destruction from the Peloponnesian Wars to Late Tomorrow Night

By Tom Engelhardt On April 7, 2022On April 7, 2022

Déjà Vu All Over Again

“Such Consequences That You Have Never Encountered in Your History”

By Tom Engelhardt On March 17, 2022On March 21, 2022

My Life with Maus

Or How I Was Banned (Even If in a Second-Hand Way) by a Trumpian World

By Tom Engelhardt On February 17, 2022On February 17, 2022

America’s Two Pandemics

And How They Mixed and Matched

By Tom Engelhardt On February 1, 2022On February 2, 2022

What Will We Remember of 2022?

Nation (Un)Building and Planet (Un)Building, American-Style

By Tom Engelhardt On January 6, 2022On January 6, 2022

My Year and Welcome to It

What a Boost(er) It Was for Me!

By Tom Engelhardt On December 23, 2021On December 31, 2021

Welcome to the Martians!

Our World Is Increasingly Like a Science-Fiction Novel

By Tom Engelhardt On November 23, 2021On November 23, 2021

Welcome to the American Century

Even If It Is a Hell on Earth

By Tom Engelhardt On November 2, 2021On November 2, 2021

Droning On

Assassins-in-Chief and Their Brood

By Tom Engelhardt On September 28, 2021On September 28, 2021

The Decline and Fall of the Roman… Whoops!… American Empire

What Really Matters in the U.S. of A.

By Tom Engelhardt On September 7, 2021On September 7, 2021

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    In a completely original analysis, prize-winning historian Alfred W. McCoy explores America’s rise as a world power—from the 1890s through the Cold War—and its bid to extend its hegemony deep into the twenty-first century through a fusion of cyberwar, space warfare, trade pacts, and military alliances. McCoy then analyzes the marquee instruments of US hegemony—covert… Read more

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    As the Great Recession and the foreclosure crisis hit, four close friends who barely made it out of poverty in New York City’s South Bronx, suddenly find themselves caught up in the economic maelstrom. Lena, Zack, Dory, and Stu must reconcile their troubled past with an uncertain future in Beverly Gologorsky’s stunning new novel, a… Read more

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