Englelhardt, a member of The Nation Institute who started and runs its Tom Dispatch political commentary web site, details how the US war machine has once again survived the changing of the guard in W
As veteran author Tom Engelhardt argues, despite having a more massive, technologically advanced, and better-funded military than any other power on the planet, in the last decade and a half of consta
In 2008, when the U.S. National Intelligence Council issued its latest report meant for the administration of newly elected President Barack Obama, it predicted that the planet’s ?sole superpower” wou
Tomdispatch.com hasestablished itself as the go-to blog for contemporary US politics, andthe favored website for leading commentators; its powerful, no-holds-barred essays resonate throughout the glob
In a substantial new afterword to his classic account of the collapse of American triumphalism in the wake of World War II, Tom Engelhardt carries that story into the twenty-first century. He explores
Praise for Tom Engelhardt's The United States of Fear:"Tom Engelhardt, as always, focuses his laser-like intelligence on a core problem that the media avoid. . . . A stunning polemic."?Mike DavisPrais
From the “taming of the West” to the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, the portrayal of the past has become a battleground at the heart of American politics. What kind of history
