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Optimism over Despair

  • 210 pages · about 4 hours
  • First published 2017
  • 5 editions

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1 About this book

"In these recent, wide-ranging interviews, conducted for Truthout by C. J. Polychroniou, Chomsky discusses his views on the "war on terror" and the rise of neoliberalism, the refugee crisis and cracks in the European Union, prospects for a just peace in Israel/Palestine, the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement, the dysfunctional US electoral system, the grave danger posed to humanity by the climate crisis, and the hopes, prospects, and challenges of building a movement for radical change".

  • Politics and government
  • Optimism
  • Political science
  • Imperialism
  • Interviews
  • Peace
  • Foreign relations

2 About Noam Chomsky

Born 1928

Avram Noam Chomsky (born December 7, 1928) is an American intellectual, philosopher, linguist, political activist, and social critic. Sometimes called "the father of modern linguistics", Chomsky is also a major figure in analytic philosophy and one of the founders of the field of cognitive science.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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