Imminent Crises: Threats and Opportunities
The Middle East is strategically the most important area of the world to the United States — and the most unstable. But it is far from the only region where American power is deployed in service to a vision of empire that rivals that of imperial Rome — which is precisely the problem, says the man the New York Times Book Review called “the most important intellectual alive today.”
Noam Chomsky, 77, is one of America’s most prominent political dissidents. An emeritus professor of linguistics at MIT, he is credited with the theory of generative grammar, one of the most significant contributions to theoretical linguistics in the 20th century. The author of more than 30 political books, he is also widely known for his criticism of the foreign policy of the United States and other governments. He penned his first political article at age 10 and has not slowed down since.