A New World in Our Hearts, Noam Chomsky
A New World in Our Hearts, Noam Chomsky
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A New World in Our Hearts
In Conversation with Michael Albert

Author: Noam Chomsky

Narrator: Donald Corren

Unabridged: 5 hr 42 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/28/2022

Synopsis

An interview with Noam Chomsky is a bit like throwing batting practice to Babe Ruth. What you lob in, he will hammer out.This conversational interview by Michael Albert, who has been close to Chomsky for roughly half a century and talked with him many hundreds of times, spans a wide range of topics including journalism, science, religion, the racist foundations of American society, education as indoctrination, issues of class and resistance, colonialism, imperialism, and much more.The thread through it all is that every topic—and the list above takes us just about halfway through this book—reveals how social systems work, what their impact on humanity is, and how they are treated by the elite, mainstream intellectuals, and leftists. It gets personal, theoretical, and observational. The lessons are relevant to all times, so far, and pretty much all places, and Chomsky’s logical scalpel, with moral guidance, is relentless.

About Noam Chomsky

Noam Chomsky is a laureate professor at the University of Arizona and professor emeritus in the MIT Department of Linguistics and Philosophy. Chomsky’s work is widely credited with having revolutionized the field of modern linguistics, and he is one of the foremost critics of US foreign policy. He has published numerous groundbreaking books, articles, and essays on global politics, history, and linguistics. His most recent books include Taming the Rascal Multitude and Between Thought and Expression Lies a Lifetime (with James Kelman).

About Michael Albert

Michael Albert is an organizer, publisher, teacher, and author of over twenty books and hundreds of articles. He cofounded South End Press, Z Magazine, the Z Media Institute, ZNet, and various other projects, and works full-time for Z Communications. He is the author of Practical Utopia: Strategies for a Desirable Society.

About Donald Corren

Donald Corren is an audiobook narrator and a New York actor with leading credits on and Off-Broadway, as well as numerous television appearances. On Broadway, he costarred with Judy Kaye in the critically acclaimed production of Souvenir, and replaced Harvey Fierstein in the seminal production of Torch Song Trilogy. His Off-Broadway appearances include The Soap Myth, Dietrich & Chevalier, The Last Sunday in June, Stephen Sondheim’s Saturday Night, and the original New York production of Tomfoolery. His television credits include eight seasons as forensic tech Medill on NBC’s Law & Order, as well as his current role as Dr. Kurian on Syfy’s Z Nation.

Reviews

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Quotes

“Chomsky is a global phenomenon…He may be the most widely read American voice on foreign policy on the planet.” New York Times Book Review, praise for the author

“Noam Chomsky is the world’s most humane, philosophically sophisticated, and knowledgeable public intellectual.” Richard Falk, professor emeritus of international law, Princeton University, praise for the author

“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, praise for the author

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