Ben Ehrenreich

Ben Ehrenreich’s most recent book, The Way to the Spring, is based on his reporting from the West Bank. His next book, Desert Notebooks: A Road Map for the End of Time, will be published in July by Counterpoint Press.

ActivismMarch 26, 2019

The Road to Climate Catastrophe Runs Through a City Called Commerce

But, if we listen carefully, the solutions to the climate crisis also come from Commerce.

Ben Ehrenreich
Climate ChangeMarch 1, 2019

Climate Change Is Here—and It Looks Like Starvation

But don’t expect to hear about it on the nightly news.

Ben Ehrenreich
Climate ChangeFebruary 15, 2019

The Hidden Climate-Change Story Behind Trump’s ‘National Emergency’

Walls and borders are this country's most consistent climate-change ‘adaptation.’

Ben Ehrenreich
EnvironmentJanuary 15, 2019

To Those Who Think We Can Reform Our Way Out of the Climate Crisis

Our only hope is to stop exploiting the earth—and its people.

Ben Ehrenreich
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Arms SpendingJanuary 10, 2019

Letters From the January 28-February 4, 2019, Issue

Fuzzy math… Where there’s smoke… The real George Bush… Thanks, but no thanks (web only)…

Our Readers and Ben Ehrenreich
Climate ChangeNovember 15, 2018

The Fire This Time

California’s Camp Fire is a reckoning, an alarm shrieking that our leaders won’t save us from climate change—but perhaps we can.

Ben Ehrenreich
December 24, 2017

Ahed Tamimi Has Become the Symbol of a New Generation of Palestinian Resistance

It would be far better, however, if she could just be a child.

Ben Ehrenreich
FictionSeptember 7, 2016

Antoine Volodine’s Army of Avatars

Is there any other writer whose work is as strange and hermetic and gloriously, painfully appropriate to the unparalleled shittiness of our times?

Ben Ehrenreich
May 25, 2016

Three Walls

In the shadow of a wall, every house is different.

Ben Ehrenreich
FictionFebruary 4, 2016

Vladimir Sorokin’s Absurdist Excess

Even the Russian author’s most sincere explorations tend toward brutal deadpan satire, cartoonish extremes of violence, comically unsexy sex, and flatulence.

Ben Ehrenreich