EDITORIAL PICK: Interview with Noam Chomsky – Effective Ways to Change Politics

EDITORIAL PICK: Interview with Noam Chomsky – Effective Ways to Change Politics

In this interview, recorded as part of the 2019 annual Yale Global Justice Program conference, Prof. Noam Chomsky talks with Prof. Thomas Pogge about the targets, prospects and tactics of political action today. Chomsky is drawing on his long experience taking part in documenting and participating in political action against injustice.

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ABOUT NOAM CHOMSKY:

Noam Chomsky is a world-renowned political dissident, anarchist, linguist, author and institute professor emeritus at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he’s taught for more than half a century.

Chomsky has written more than 100 books, his latest being “Because We Say So“.  Chomsky has been a hisghly influential academic figure throughout his career, and was cited within the Arts and Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI) more often than any other living scholar from 1980 to 1992. His work has influenced a wide range of domains, including artificial intelligence, cognitive science, computer science, logic, mathematics, music theory and analysis, psychology and immunology.

Chomsky also developed the propaganda model of media criticism with Edward S. Herman which they presented in their book “Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media“. Chomsky remains a leading critic of U.S. foreign policy, neoliberal capitalism, and mainstream news media.