A New World in Our Hearts: In Conversation with Michael Albert

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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. Cover Half title page Title page Copyright Contents SECTION I: The Z Sessions SESSION ONE: Responsibility of Intellectuals, Scholars, and Journalists SESSION TWO: Science, Religion, and Human Nature SESSION THREE: Education and Economics SESSION FOUR: The Political System SESSION FIVE: International Relations SECTION II: Chomsky Raps with Michael Albert Afterword Index About the Authors