Introduction • vii
Part I. Interview • 1
Part II. The Responsibilities of Intellectuals • 57
The Responsibilities of
Intellectuals • 59
Objectivity and
Liberal Scholarship • 83
The Manufacture of
Consent • 121
Part III. Interpreting the World • 137
Language and
Freedom • 139
Psychology and
Ideology • 157
Equality: Language
Development, Human Intelligence, and Social Organization •
183
Part IV. The United States and the World • 203
The Cold War • 205
The Old and the New Cold
War • 207
At War with Asia • 221
The American Invasion of
South Vietnam • 221
Afghanistan and South
Vietnam • 223
Vietnam and United States
Global Strategy • 227
Waging the War • 257
After "Pinkville" •
259
Laos • 265
The Mentality of the
Backroom Boys • 269
Cambodia • 289
Punishing Vietnam •
299
East Timor • 303
Central America • 313
Intervention in Vietnam
and Central America: Parallels and Differences • 315
El Salvador •
339
Nicaragua • 351
Guatemala • 363
The Middle East • 369
Rejectionism and
Accomodation • 371
Notes • 407
Index • 481
NOAM CHOMSKY is Institute Professor (Emeritus) in the
M.I.T. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy. His work is widely
credited with having revolutionized the field of modern
linguistics. Chomsky is the author of many best-selling books,
including the New York Times bestseller Hegemony or
Survival, Failed States, Imperial Ambitions, What We Say
Goes, and Hopes and Prospects.
JAMES PECK is the editor of China's Uniterrupted
Revolution and The Indochina Story, both published
by Pantheon.
From the 1960s to the present, linguist Chomsky has been a prominent critic of American foreign policy, influential in radical and scholarly circles. This collection offers a broad sampling of Chomsky's best writing on the subject. The essays are typical Chomsky: long, analytical, probing, and controversial. Some have appeared in earlier collections; others are expanded transcripts of recent lectures. The most familiar are concerned with U.S. policy in Vietnam, Central America, and the Middle East. Editor Peck gives us an overview of Chomsky's writings in his useful introduction, though he tends to be extravagant in his praise. Even more useful is a long interview with Chomsky himself. Highly recommended for all academic libraries. Thomas A. Karel, Franklin & Marshall Coll. Lib., Lancaster, Pa.
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