War Is A Crime

In my town the cherry trees now bloom as winter approaches, and the curious thing is that people no longer mention the lovely spring days in November without adding they they are aware it’s an indication of a climate collapse that may rapidly render human life on Earth impossible. Everyone not only knows it but says it.

They still never add that they want to engage in any sort of activism to compel a change of course, even as the U.S. government is handed over fully to the oil companies and other read more

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Here’s how Harry Litman, a former Justice Department official, put it recently: “He’s erratic and has the attention span of a 7-year-old. But his thirst for revenge against those he views as his read more

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I live in New York City, which is now (like much of this country) in a drought. In fact, this October was the read more

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Yes, Donald Trump was perfectly free to speak his mind in that interview with Fox’s Maria Bartiromo on October 13th, and here’s what he said in response to read more

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2084
The World as It Might Be (Or Do I Mean Might Have Been?)

By Tom Engelhardt

Honestly, what would George Orwell have written about this planet of ours, four decades after that ominous year 1984 passed from his fiction into history?

And yes, in case you think that, as in his novel read more

Remarks in Göteborg, Sweden, November 11, 2024.

It’s wonderful to be here with many of you whose work I’ve known but whom I’ve rarely if ever been with in person. I am very grateful to John Jones and Tomas Magnusson and all those involved in arranging this event.

It’s wonderful to be in a country which — like Norway, where I was yesterday — some of my great-grandparents came from, including here in Sweden the ones who gave me my last name. I imagine some of you are too polite here in read more

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Honestly, can you believe that Hamas’s devastating October 7th attack on Israel and that country’s initial military response to it occurred well over a year ago? Or that, for the last 14 months, the Gaza Strip — and it’s not called a “strip” for nothing, being only 25 miles long and, at most, seven miles wide — has become an all too literal hell on Earth? Only read more

Remarks upon acceptance of Real Nobel Peace Prize, Oslo, Norway, November 10, 2024.

It’s wonderful to be here with many of you whose work I’ve known but whom I’ve rarely if ever been with in person. I am very grateful to John Jones and Tomas Magnusson for arranging this event. I am thrilled to be here at the start of what I expect will be years of terrific work by the Lay Down Your Arms Foundation — an appropriate name here in the House of Literature. The great Fredrik Heffermehl, read more