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According to The New York Times, Noam Chomsky is arguably the most important intellectual alive.” But he isn’t easy to read . . . or at least he wasn’t until these books came along. Made up of intensively edited speeches and interviews, they offer something not found anywhere else: pure Chomsky, with every dazzling idea and penetrating insight intact, delivered in clear, accessible, reader-friendly prose.

Published as four short books in the famous Real Story seriesWhat Uncle Sam Really Wants; The Prosperous Few and the Restless Many; Secrets, Lies and Democracy; and The Common Goodthey’ve collectively sold almost 600,000 copies.

And they continue to sell year after year after year because Chomsky’s ideas become, if anything, more relevant as time goes by. For example, twenty years ago he pointed out that in 1970, about 90% of international capital was used for trade and long-term investmentmore or less productive thingsand 10% for speculation. By 1990, those figures had reversed.” As we know, speculation continued to increase exponentially. We’re paying the price now for not heeding him them.
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Release dateSep 1, 2011
ISBN9781593764661
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Noam Chomsky

Noam Chomsky is one of the most cited scholars in history and has profoundly shaped contemporary understanding of American politics. An ally of anarcho-syndicalists the world over, he has authored numerous books on linguistics, history and politics. He is Institute Professor (emeritus) in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at MIT, and Laureate Professor of Linguistics and Agnese Nelms Haury Chair in the Program in Environment and Social Justice at the University of Arizona.

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  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Collected from interviews done twenty-five years ago, but even more applicable today. While Chomsky does a tremendous job of detailing the massive problems in the country and the world (see:CORPORATE OLIGARCHY) he unfortunately is short on solutions. Still, he is extremely interesting, seems to know just about everything there is to know about everything, and is obviously a genius. I learned a lot.
  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    There is limited utility in pointing out the hypocrisy of the west. Especially when lying by omission about its victims.
  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    Just what we all need, Noam Chomsky to explain the world to us!

    Here is a list of things that I am more interested in than Noam Chomsky's worldview...

    Reviews of scented candles...
    Cats...
    People who devote their lives to Star Trek...
    Canola oil...
    Studies to determine how much "rib meat" is in a chicken nugget...
    and so on...

    Really, only a full of himself to the bursting point lib would be so arrogant as to name a book The Way the World Works, particularly when all that Chomsky does is kick around the same old tired liberal tropes that have proven time and again not to work. But hey, don't let that stop you if you want to read the preaching of a demented fool who denies all evidence to the contrary that his beliefs and ideas are nothing but bright airy foam.