The Responsibility Of Intellectuals: Fiftieth Anniversary Edition

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Chomsky is a rock star: Bono called him the "Elvis of academia." Recently featured by the NYT Education Life section (11/6/16), Chomsky is frequently in the news and has recently debunked critiques by the right-winger Tom Wolfe in The Kingdom of Speech (Little, Brown) and by the anthropologist Chris Knight in Decoding Chomsky (Yale). Chomsky has such a significant public profile that there is now Chomsky merch available, from mugs to T-shirts and luggage tags (!) to a ceramic garden gnome marketed as "Gnome Chomsky." He supported Bernie Sanders and predicted the rise of a candidate like Donald Trump long before Trump came on the scene. Now 87, Chomsky continues to speak publicly and to publish books and opinion pieces. Asked how he accounts for his amazing energy levels, he credits the "bicycle theory" that "as long as you keep riding you don't fall." essay and to tie it to our own 25th anniversary in 2017. Chomsky is a best-selling author whose books have sold millions of copies.

Noam Chomsky is Institute Professor (Emeritus) in the MIT Department of Linguistics and Philosophy. Widely credited with having revolutionized the field of modern linguistics, he is also a political dissident who has written more than one hundred books. His New Press books include Understanding Power, On Anarchism, and The Essential Chomsky. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Praise for The Responsibility of Intellectuals: One of Newsweek's "14 nonfiction books you'll want to read this fall" Praise for Noam Chomsky: "Chomsky is a global phenomenon. . . . He may be the most widely read American voice on foreign policy on the planet." -The New York Times Book Review "America's most useful citizen." -The Boston Globe "With relentless logic, Chomsky bids us to listen closely to what our leaders tell us-and to discern what they are leaving out...Agree with him or not, we lose out by not listening." -Businessweek "For anyone wanting to find out more about the world we live in...there is one simple answer: read Noam Chomsky." -The New Statesman "[He] undermine[s]...the distinction between...'what we stand for' and 'what we do.' His views are held not only by American critics on the left but also by many people around the world." -The New York Review of Books