The Ultimate Twosome: Nukes and Climate Change in 2024
By Tom Engelhardt / TomDispatch Honestly, what strange creatures we are. Nothing stops us when it comes to destruction, does it? (And I’m not even thinking about the utter, ongoing…
Living on a Smoke-Bomb of a Planet
September 11th, Climate-Change-Style.
Whose Planet Are We On?
What happens when LTAI (Less Than Artificial Intelligence) gives way to AI?
War, What Is It Good For?
The American experience of war since 1945 should have offered an all-too-obvious lesson for us, as well as for the planet’s other great powers, when it comes to the value…
McCarthyism, Then and Now
And the (True) One-Party State in America.
The Inflation and Deflation Stories of Our Lifetime (and No, They’re Not the Ones You Think!)
Why are the most crucial inflationary and deflationary stories of our time, maybe of all time, often buried?
The Biggest Criminal Enterprise in History
By Tom Engelhardt | TomDispatch Author’s note: I wrote this piece in May 2013, with a helping hand from the invaluable Nick Turse who came up with the word “terracide.”…
Will We Ever See Climate Change on the Ballot?
When I consider this planet, the only one we humans have (at least as yet), I find it all too unnerving that climate change didn’t make it into the midterms…
Tom Engelhardt: An Obituary for Our World
Give Vladimir Putin full credit. His invasion of Ukraine helped take our minds off climate change at the worst possible moment (so far), even as his war only increases the…
Tom Engelhardt on the Corporate Equivalent of Book Burning
A deeply personal look at how two progressive publishing houses where I worked as an editor, Pantheon Books in the last century and Metropolitan Books in this one, both run…
How the American Dream Became the American Scream
Isn’t it a strange form of science fiction that, in response to a crisis that could someday signal the end of civilization, the focus in this country is on Donald…
Tom Engelhardt: The Decline and Fall of Everything (Including Me)
Will we find some way to write America's story that won’t end in the fall not just of this imperial power but of humanity itself?
Tom Engelhardt: Life in This Literal Hell
There’s so much heat that we seem endlessly in the fires of this political moment. To top it off, our planet is already overheating not just politically or militarily, but…