David Bromwich, a TomDispatch regular, is the editor of a selection of Edmund Burke’s speeches, On Empire, Liberty, and Reform, has written on the Constitution and America’s wars for The New York Review of Books and The Huffington Post and is the author of American Breakdown: The Trump Years and How They Befell Us.
Living on a War Planet
Meanwhile, the lesson for the United States should be simple enough: the survival of the planet cannot wait for the world’s last superpower to complete our endless business of war.
August 30, 2023