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David Bromwich

David Bromwich teaches literature at Yale University. A TomDispatch regular, he is the author of Moral Imagination and The Intellectual Life of Edmund Burke: From the Sublime and Beautiful to American Independence. His new book, American Breakdown: The Trump Years and How They Befell Us (Verso Books), will be published in 2019.

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Dec 10, 2017
Latest from David Bromwich
A woman checks her cell phone as the Holy Fire burns in Cleveland National Forest on August 8, 2018, in Lake Elsinore, California.
News Analysis
Environment & Health

Catastrophe Is Coming, and We Can’t Kill Our Way Out of It

There will be more wars as a result of climate change.
by
David Bromwich,
TomDispatch
June 11, 2019
Truthout
Op-Ed
War & Peace

Neoconservatives Play the Long Game in Iran

David Bromwich examines the imperialist idealism that is the driving force behind the neoconservative version of reality.
by
David Bromwich,
TomDispatch
August 24, 2015
Truthout
Op-Ed

The Importance of Being Exceptional: From Ancient Greece to 21st Century US

To make an exception of yourself is as immoral a proceeding for a nation as it is for an individual.
by
David Bromwich,
TomDispatch
October 23, 2014
Truthout
News Analysis

How Obama Became a Publicist for His Presidency (Rather Than the President)

For some time now, observers have been saying that Barack Obama seems more like a king than a president.
by
David Bromwich,
TomDispatch
March 10, 2014
Truthout
News Analysis

Symptoms of the Bush-Obama Presidency: The Saved and the Sacked

Then-President-elect Barack Obama with President George W. Bush in the Oval Office on January 7, 2009. (Photo: Beverly & Pack) Is it too soon to speak…
by
David Bromwich,
TomDispatch
August 18, 2011
Truthout

The Embarrassments of Empire: Washington Wonders What to Say About Arab Freedom

From Egypt to Pakistan, February 2011 will be remembered as a month unusually full of the embarrassments of empire. Americans were enthralled by a spectacle of liberty in…
by
David Bromwich,
TomDispatch | News Analysis
March 10, 2011
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