Author: Tom Engelhardt

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I give myself credit for being significantly ahead of my time. I first came across artificial intelligence (AI) in 1968 when I was just 24 years old and, from the beginning, I sensed its deep dangers. Imagine that.

Much as I’d like to brag about it, though, I was anything but alone. I was, in fact, undoubtedly one of millions of people who saw the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, read more

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No, as TomDispatch regular Juan Cole, creator of the must-read Informed Comment website, points out today, you don’t want to be in the Iraq read more

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Yes, as TomDispatch regular and historian Steve Fraser, author of Class Matters: The Strange Career of an read more

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It’s reasonable to ask: What gets anyone involved in politics, American-style? What leads any of us to decide to protest anything? Today, TomDispatch regular (and my old friend) Beverly Gologorsky explores how a childhood in poverty prepared her to become “political” — to become, that is, an “activist against injustice” (as well as a superb novelist).

In comparison, read more

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Today’s author, TomDispatch regular Michael Gould-Wartofsky, has seen what he calls “far-right carnage” in an all too up close and personal fashion. In 2017, he read more

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It hardly matters whether you’re talking about the Canadian wildfires that continue to burn in an out-of-control fashion or the 120-degree temperatures in… read more

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The language should seem familiar: “I am your warrior. I am your justice. And for those who have been wronged and betrayed, I am your retribution.” That, of course, is — and in our moment in America, could read more

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As a teenager, I certainly watched the remarkable Cleveland Browns fullback Jim Brown run amuck on a football field and I’m sure I wasn’t happy about it, since he was doing so against “my” team, the New York Giants. But he was a great read more

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Recently, a new word burst into our political world. I’m thinking, of course, of “weaponization.” In response to the charges Special Counsel Jack Smith recently lodged against Donald Trump for misusing and abusing classified documents, Republicans read more

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Living on a Smoke-Bomb of a Planet September 11th, Climate-Change-Style By Tom Engelhardt

As it turns out, it’s never too late. I mention that only because last week, at nearly 79, I managed to visit Mars for the first time. You know, the red planet, or rather — so it seemed to me — the orange read more