The Chomsky Reader

The Chomsky Reader brings together for the first time the political thought of America's leading dissident intellectual--"arguably the most important intellectual alive".--The New York Times Chomsky scheduled for lecture circuit.

Introduction • vii

Part I. Interview • 1

Part II. The Responsibilities of Intellectuals • 57
The Responsibilities of Intellectuals • 59
 Objectivity and Liberal Scholarship • 83
 The Manufacture of Consent • 121

Part III. Interpreting the World • 137
 Language and Freedom • 139
 Psychology and Ideology • 157
 Equality: Language Development, Human Intelligence, and Social Organization • 183

Part IV. The United States and the World • 203
 The Cold War • 205
The Old and the New Cold War • 207
 At War with Asia • 221
The American Invasion of South Vietnam • 221
Afghanistan and South Vietnam • 223
Vietnam and United States Global Strategy • 227
Waging the War • 257
After "Pinkville" • 259
Laos • 265
The Mentality of the Backroom Boys • 269
Cambodia • 289
Punishing Vietnam • 299
East Timor • 303
 Central America • 313
Intervention in Vietnam and Central America: Parallels and Differences • 315
El Salvador • 339
Nicaragua • 351
Guatemala • 363
 The Middle East • 369
Rejectionism and Accomodation • 371

Notes • 407

Index • 481