Interventions

Interventions is a book by Noam Chomsky, an American linguist, MIT professor, and political activist. Published in May 2007, Interventions is a collection of 44 op-ed articles, post-9/11, from September 2002, through March 2007. After 9/11, Noam Chomsky began writing short, roughly 1000 word concise articles, distributed by The New York Times Syndicate as op-eds. They were widely picked up overseas but rarely in the US and only in smaller regiona... more

Interventions is a book by Noam Chomsky, an American linguist, MIT professor, and political activist. Published in May 2007, Interventions is a collection of 44 op-ed articles, post-9/11, from September 2002, through March 2007. After 9/11, Noam Chomsky began writing short, roughly 1000 word concise articles, distributed by The New York Times Syndicate as op-eds. They were widely picked up overseas but rarely in the US and only in smaller regional or local papers. The New York Times circulated them worldwide but had never published them to its own readers. The regional newspapers in the US that did pick up the op-eds where such as The Register Guard, The Dayton Daily News, and The Knoxville Voice. Internationally, the op-eds have appeared in the mainstream European press including The International Herald Tribune, The Guardian, and The Independent. This book is a complete collection of these articles. The book's subjects span from 9/11 and the Iraq war to social security and... less