Noam Chomsky and Ilan Pappé, Haymarket (Consortium, dist.), $16 trade paper (202p) ISBN 978-1-60846-097-7
Although much of the material collected here precedes Israel's recent military attack on a Gaza-bound international flotilla of embargo-breaking humanitarian aid, this succinct and eye-opening collection of recent interviews and essays from the...
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Noam Chomsky, Et, Author . Holt/Metropolitan $22 (278p) ISBN 978-0-8050-7400-0
In this highly readable, heavily footnoted critique of American foreign policy from the late 1950s to the present, Chomsky (whose 9-11
was a bestseller last year) argues that current U.S. policies in Afghanistan and Iraq are not a specific response
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Noam Chomsky, edited by Peter Hutchison, Kelly Nyks, and Jared P. Scott. Seven Stories, $19.95 trade paper (192p) ISBN 978-1-60980-736-8
Since Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the 21st Century, income inequality has not been novel material for a book. Nevertheless, the latest book from famed activist and linguist Chomsky (Who Rules the World?) seems fresher than almost any title on the...
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Noam Chomsky. Metropolitan, $28 (320p) ISBN 978-1-6277-9381-0
Equally depressing, thorough, and necessary, this new work from Chomsky (Because We Say So) shows why he is still among our most insightful public intellectuals. Here, he turns his attention to the U.S.’s current place on the world stage and how it...
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Noam Chomsky, Et, Author Columbia University Press $32.5 (311p) ISBN 978-0-231-10156-1
To Chomsky, the Cold War was just a passing phase in the West's 500-year global domination of poorer nations, providing the U.S. with easy formulas to justify criminal interventionist actions abroad and entrenchment of privilege and state power at...
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Noam Chomsky, Et, Author Verso $30 (421p) ISBN 978-0-86091-318-4
Chomsky regards the ``new world order'' proclaimed by Bush as a sham. What this phrase means, argues the noted MIT scholar, is that the U.S. will persist in its role as global enforcer of its own foreign policies. This meticulously researched,...
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Noam Chomsky, Et, Author Metropolitan Books $24 (311p) ISBN 978-0-8050-7912-8
Forget Iraq and Sudan-America is the foremost failed state, argues the latest polemic from America's most controversial Left intellectual. Chomsky (Imperial Ambitions) contends the U.S. government wallows in lawless military aggression (the Iraq war
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Noam Chomsky, Et, Author Rowman & Littlefield Publishers $22.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-7425-2699-0
Chomsky's scathing indictments of U.S. foreign policy have long divided readers, and this collection of essays about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is likely to do the same. Written during the last 30 years, these pieces display many...
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Noam Chomsky, Et, Author City Lights Books $15.95 (232p) ISBN 978-0-87286-483-2
Though sometimes distracted by topics like Hurricane Katrina or South America, the essays in Chomsky's latest, written for the New York Times Syndicate between September 2002 and July '06, are largely concerned with Iraq, seen through the combative,
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Noam Chomsky, Et, Author South End Press $16 (254p) ISBN 978-0-89608-611-1
World-famous MIT linguist Chomsky has long kept up a second career as a cogent voice of the hard left, excoriating American imperialism, critiquing blinkered journalists and attacking global economic injustice. Chomsky's new work, a collection of...
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Noam Chomsky, Et, Author South End Press $16 (244p) ISBN 978-0-89608-535-0
The prolific linguist and political pundit has two new books out this season. In May, Common Courage will bring out Class Warfare, the third in a series of interviews between Chomsky and David Barsamian, director of Alternative Radio. At a time when
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Noam Chomsky, Et, Author South End Press $40 (244p) ISBN 978-0-89608-536-7
The prolific linguist and political pundit has two new books out this season. In May, Common Courage will bring out Class Warfare, the third in a series of interviews between Chomsky and David Barsamian, director of Alternative Radio. At a time when
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Noam Chomsky, Et, Author South End Press $14 (172p) ISBN 978-0-89608-458-2
Veteran critic/activist Chomsky ( Deterring Democracy ) analyzes the issue most prominently posed in Oliver Stone's film JFK : was President Kennedy a secret dove whose assassination extinguished a chance to end the Vietnam War? Those willing to...
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Noam Chomsky, City Lights, $15.95 trade paper (200p) ISBN 978-0-87286-537-2
Chomsky's (Understanding Power) latest collection of commentary focuses on a familiar theme: the perils of American hegemony abroad and the inexorable growth of the American corporate military industrial complex. While studying issues ranging from...
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Noam Chomsky, Et, Author . Haymarket $16 (327p) ISBN 978-1-931859-96-7
This selection of Chomsky's essays and lectures comes divided into geographical areas, but the issues are global in scope and import. In dissecting the rhetoric and logic of American empire and class domination, at home and abroad, Chomsky...
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Noam Chomsky, Et, Author, David Barsamian, Other Metropolitan Books $15 (226p) ISBN 978-0-8050-7967-8
The infuriating, indispensable dean of American dissidents returns with this new collection of interviews with long-time amanuensis Barsamian. In these wide-ranging conversations, linguist and philosopher Chomsky, author of Hegemony or Survival,...
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Noam Chomsky, Et, Author, Howard Zinn, Introduction by New Press $18.95 (432p) ISBN 978-1-56584-775-0
Whether assessing U.S. policy in the Middle East (Fateful Triangle) or analyzing the events of September 11 (9-11), linguist, intellectual giant and moral authority Chomsky has made a brilliant career out of telling his fellow Americans things they...
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Noam Chomsky, interviews with David Barsamian. Metropolitan, $16 trade paper (224p) ISBN 978-0-8050-9615-6
For decades, famed MIT linguist and political critic Chomsky has provided a sober perspective on U.S. policy. In this set of interviews (from 2010 to 2012) with journalist Barsamian (director of Alternative Radio), Chomsky (Hegemony or Survival)...
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Noam Chomsky, read by Noam Chomsky and David Barsamian. MacMillan Audio, unabridged, seven CDs, 7 hrs., $34.99 ISBN 978-1-42-722585-6
In this series of interviews with activist-journalist David Barsamian, noted political theorist and linguist Noam Chomsky details the essence of power in the modern political world and describes the tendency of major social institutions to generate...
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Noam Chomsky, Et, Author, Ira Katznelson, Author, Laura Nader, Author New Press $25 (258p) ISBN 978-1-56584-005-8
Those already inclined to regard the government as deceitful, oppressive and imperialist will be further convinced by this book. To most people, however, it will appear unfortunately slanted and dated. The overt purpose of the collection is to...
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Noam Chomsky, Et, Author, David Barsamian, Author Common Courage Press $17.95 (317p) ISBN 978-1-56751-032-4
Barsamian, the founder of Alternative Radio, and Chomsky, allegedly the most quoted author in the modern era, have forged a symbiotic relationship that manages to distill Chomsky's political philosophies and make them accessible. Barsamian's...
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Noam Chomsky, Et, Author, David Barsamian, Author Common Courage Press $29.95 (185p) ISBN 978-1-56751-093-5
The prolific linguist and political pundit has two new books out this season. In May, Common Courage will bring out Class Warfare, the third in a series of interviews between Chomsky and David Barsamian, director of Alternative Radio. At a time when
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Noam Chomsky, Et, Author, David Barsamian, Author Common Courage Press $15 (185p) ISBN 978-1-56751-092-8
The prolific linguist and political pundit has two new books out this season. In May, Common Courage will bring out Class Warfare, the third in a series of interviews between Chomsky and David Barsamian, director of Alternative Radio. At a time when
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Noam Chomsky, Et, Author, David Barsamian, Author, Alexander Cockburn, Designed by Common Courage Press $18.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-9628838-8-0
These interviews with Chomsky, conducted between 1984 and 1991, focus almost exclusively on the noted linguist's controversial political views. This volume is thus a good introduction to his political thought for those who are intimidated by his...
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Noam Chomsky, Et, Author, Gilbert Achcar, Author, Stephan R. Shalom, Preface by . Paradigm $22.95 (276p) ISBN 978-1-59451-312-1
This intriguing series of conversations between like-minded peers about America in the Middle East pairs dissident intellectual Chomsky with Achcar, who is less well known for critiques of U.S. foreign policy (Clash of Barbarisms
). Drawing on deep...
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Noam Chomsky, Et, Author, Peter R. Mitchell, Editor, John Schoeffel, Editor . New Press $19.95 (416p) ISBN 978-1-56584-703-3
For the past several decades, Noam Chomsky has become more famous for his trenchant critiques of U.S. foreign policy than for his groundbreaking linguistic theories. In this collection of material from his lectures and teach-ins, public defenders...
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Noam Chomsky, Et, Author, Eduardo Galeano, Foreword by Haymarket Books $16 (195p) ISBN 978-1-931859-59-2
The essays in Chomsky's latest are largely concerned with Iraq, seen through the combative, populist (though by no means popular) convictions for which the linguist and activist has become known. His long-standing criticism of Israel makes it the...
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