Tom Engelhardt is the creator of the Nation Institute's tomdispatch.com, a liberal blog. He is also the co-founder of the American Empire Project and the author of the 1998 book, The End of Victory Culture: Cold War America and the Disillusioning of a Generation.
Engelhardt graduated from Yale College and took a Master's degree in Area Studies from Harvard University, where he was a founding member of the Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars.