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In its June 9 issue (on sale this week), the New York Review of Books will be the first American print publication…
Tom Engelhardt
Tom Engelhardt created and runs the website TomDispatch.com. He is 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 and latest book is A Nation Unmade by War.
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[Editor’s note: It’s unprecedented for any official — high or low — to leak information to Tomdispatch, but some weeks ago a…
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There’s that classic line of career advice to the confused young hero of the 1967 film The Graduate: “I want to say…
For the last few years we have been ruled by lexicographers. Never has an administration spent so much time creating, defining, or…