Global discontents
Subtitle: conversations on the rising threats to democracy
By: Noam Chomsky ; interviews with David Barsamian
Contributors: Barsamian, David, interviewer
Edition: First edition.
Series: The American empire project
Publisher: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 227
ISBN-13: 9781250146182
Subjects: Politics and government; Climatic changes; International economic relations; Income distribution; Democracy; Interviews; Political and social views; World politics; Linguists; Political aspects
Description: In wide-ranging interviews with David Barsamian, his longtime interlocutor, Noam Chomsky asks us to consider a world imperiled by climate change and the growing potential for nuclear war. These twelve interviews, conducted from 2013 to 2016, examine the latest developments around the globe: the devastation of Syria, the reach of state surveillance, growing anger over economic inequality, the place of religion in American political culture, and the bitterly contested 2016 U.S. presidential election. In accompanying personal reflections on his Philadelphia childhood and his eighty-seventh birthday, Chomsky also describes his own intellectual journey.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.