About the Program
Tom Engelhardt, longtime editor and creator of TomDispatch.com, looks at the U.S.'s decades long push for global dominance and the military-industrial establishment that supports it. In this context, he explains President Obama's continuation of President Bush's War on Terror. Mr. Engelhardt spoke at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York.
Tom Engelhardt
Tom Engelhardt, senior editor at Pantheon from 1976 to 1990, is currently a consulting editor at Metropolitan Books and a fellow at the Nation Institute. His books include "The End of Victory Culture: Cold War America and the Disillusioning of a Generation" and "Mission Unaccomplished: Timdispatch Interviews with American Iconoclasts and Dissenters." Over the years, Mr. Engelhardt has edited such authors as John Dower ("Embracing Defeat"), Art Spiegelman ("Maus"), Eduardo Galeano ("Upside Down World"), Ariel Dorfman ("The Empire's Old Clothes"), Robert Jay Lifton ("Superpower Syndrome"), Adam Hochschild ("King Leopold's Ghost"), Susan Faludi ("Stiffed"), Mike Davis ("Ecology of Fear"), Chalmers Johnson ("The Sorrows of Empire"), Studs Terkel ("Will the Circle Be Unbroken?"), and Jonathan Schell ("The Unconquerable World").
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