The precipice
Subtitle: neoliberalism, the pandemic and the urgent need for radical change
By: Noam Chomsky and C. J. Polychroniou
Contributors: Polychroniou, Chronis
Series: The truthout collection
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Published: 2021
Place of publication: Chicago, Illinois
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9781642594799
Subjects: Interviews; Social change; Neoliberalism; Politics and government; Néo-libéralisme
Description: A collection of interviews with the world's leading public intellectual from the time of the rise of Donald Trump to power to the end of his presidency.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword by C. J. Polychroniou; title: Trump in the White House; title: Trump's First 100 Days Are Undermining Our Prospects for Survival; title: The Long History of US Meddling in Foreign Elections; title: The US Health System Is an International Scandal; title: Trump's America and the New World Order; title: Trump and the Flawed Nature of US Democracy; title: The Resurgence of Political Authoritarianism; title: The Anatomy of Trumpocracy; title: Fascism, Showmanship, and Democrats' Hypocrisy in the Trump Era; title: Donald Trump and the "Me First" Doctrine; title: "A Complete Disaster": Trump and the Future of US Politics; title: Breaking through the Political Barriers to Free Education with Robert Pollin; title: Blueprint for a Progressive United States with Robert Pollin; title: Myths of Globalization with Ha-Joon Chang; title: If We Want a Future, Green New Deal Is Key with Robert Pollin; title: Trump Is Consolidating Far-Right Power Globally; title: Trump's Actions on Syria Reflect the Foreign Policy of a Con Man; title: To Make the US a Democracy, the Constitution Itself Must Change; title: Worship of Markets Is Threatening Human Civilization; title: Trump's "Economic Boom" Is a Sham; title: Ocasio-Cortez and Other Newcomers Are Rousing the Multitudes; title: Moral Depravity Defines US Politics; title: Trump Is Willing to Dismantle Democracy to Hold on to Power; title: Trump Is Quite Capable of an "October Surprise"; title: We Must Not Let Masters of Capital Define the Post-COVID World; title: Amid Protests and Pandemic, Trump's Priority Is Protecting Profits; title: COVID-19 Has Exposed the US under Trump as a "Failed State"; title: To Heal from COVID-19, We Must Imagine a Different World with Robert Pollin; title: Ventilator Shortage Exposes the Cruelty of Neoliberal Capitalism; title: Sanders Threatens the Establishment by Inspiring Popular Movements; title: US Is a Rogue State and Suleimani's Assassination Confirms It; title: Democratic Party Centrism Risks Handing Election to Trump; title: Coup Attempt Hit Closer to Centers of Power Than Hitler's 1923 Putsch; title: Trump Has Revealed the Extreme Fragility of American Democracy; title: Voting Is Not the End of Our Work. It's Only the Beginning; title: Index.