Tom Gallagher

Tom Gallagher is a writer and activist living in San Francisco. He is the author of Sub: My Years Underground in America’s Schools and The Primary Route: How the 99 Percent Takes On the Military Industrial Complex. He is a past member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives.

Articles

A Chameleonic Career
A new book on California’s youngest and oldest governor....
Tom GallagherMay 22, 2018
- Biography
- Politics and Economics
Reform Under the Fire of Radicalism
A new book about five icons of the 20th-century American left....
Tom GallagherDec 14, 2017
- History
- Politics and Economics
One Fait Accompli After Another: Mikhail Gorbachev on the New Russia
Tom Gallagher appreciates “The New Russia,” a political autobiography by Mikhail Gorbachev....
Tom GallagherJul 8, 2017
Reclaiming McGovern: A Legacy on the Left
Tom Gallagher reviews Thomas J. Knock’s “The Rise of a Priarie Statesman.”...
Tom GallagherJan 30, 2017
- Politics and Economics
Bern, Baby, Bern
Bernie Sanders delegate Tom Gallagher takes an inside look at his candidate’s campaign manifesto....
Tom GallagherJan 11, 2017
- Politics and Economics
Teaching in a Tough School
Ed Boland’s year of teaching in a tough school in New York City....
Tom GallagherNov 25, 2016
- Memoir
- Nonfiction
Koch World
Jane Mayer’s "Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right" is almost too good for its own good....
Tom GallagherMay 14, 2016
- Politics and Economics
A “Just and Liberal” Vision of War
Grandin wants us to think about "the outsized role" Kissinger "had in creating the world we live in today, which accepts endless war as a matter of course."...
Tom GallagherFeb 10, 2016
- Politics and Economics
War and Girlhood
“The war in Zagreb began over a pack of cigarettes.”...
Tom GallagherDec 28, 2015
- Translation
Rethinking the Geopolitics of Energy
Jones sees the current situation as an "order without parallel in human history."...
Tom GallagherOct 16, 2015
- Politics and Economics
Michael Hastings Skewers Them From the Grave (with a Scoop of Gawker)
Point of view will always be there consciously or unconsciously — but if it’s there unconsciously, it gets feral and doesn’t serve your work....
Tom GallagherAug 11, 2014
Capital Comes Knocking at the Schoolhouse Door
Is the United States’ public education crisis an example of a society in crisis overall?...
Tom GallagherMay 31, 2014