Tom morello interview noam chomsky biography
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This week in the magazine, in "The Devil's Accountant," Larissa MacFarquhar profiles Noam Chomsky, the prominent political dissident and M.I.T. linguistics professor, whose radical views have made him a cult hero on American college campuses—as well as a major cultural figure in Europe—and a topic of obsession online.
Two online sites provide comprehensive collections of Chomsky's essays, speeches, interviews, and books: the searchable Noam Chomsky Archive, hosted bygd the political monthly Z Magazine; and its unofficial supplement, Bad News, hosted by the liberal Webzine Monkeyfist. The materials here include an excerpt from a conversation between Chomsky and the French theorist Michel Foucault, "Human Nature: Justice Versus Power," and "The Legitimacy of Violence as a Political Act?," a panel discussion from December 15, , with Chomsky, Susan Sontag, Hannah Arendt, and others, which centers on the bekymmer of American intervention in
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On Democracy
Noam Chomsky interviewed by Tom Morello
Summer,
Tom Morello: Hello, Noam? Hi and welcome to Radio Free Los Angeles. Thanks so much for being on the show. I want you to know that you are probably the, ah, Noam Chomsky books are the ones most prominently featured on the rage tour bus. So it is a privilege.
Noam Chomsky: So I&#;ve heard. Glad to hear that.
TM: First question is, in this election year, I thought we would talk a little bit about democracy. One of the unquestionable ideas that were force fed from our first days in school is that we do live in a democracy. In your opinion, in what sense is our society democratic?
NC: Well, I should say that if that is true an awful lot people don&#;t believe it. A Gallup poll for years has been regularly asking people who they think the government works for, and it has usually been running about 50% saying &#;the few and the special interests, not the people.&#; Last year it went up to 82%.
TM: Wow
NC: So
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