Keeping the fire burning ... it's a forever thing

For over a decade, Erudite Partner has been publishing occasional essays at the news site TomDispatch. The editor, Tom Engelhardt, came to publishing from the New England Free Press where he worked in the late 1960s -- in those days, radical publishing meant literally becoming printers of physical flyers as well as books. When I passed through Boston and visited in the spring of 1969, I imagine I met him; there were a lot of nice, earnest young men in the loft where they ran the presses. He later built TomDispatch into a syndication service for writing and distribution of progressive thinking.

 

Like all of us who have worked since the Sixties to tend and sometimes ignite the smoldering coals of struggles for justice, Tom is getting on. Others plan to take up his work in some form as Tom retires. Tom, you have served the people well and truthfully. 

 

Erudite Partner looks back at the more than one hundred essays she has written for Tom in a final piece: About That Arc of the Moral Universe; Sometimes It’s More Like a Meandering Sine Wave.