A New Generation Draws the Line: Kosovo, East Timor and the Standards of the West - Couverture souple

“Judged in terms of the power, range, novelty, and influence of his thought, Noam Chomsky is arguably the most important intellectual alive.”—The New York Times

“Better than anyone else now writing, Chomsky combines indignation with insight, erudition with moral passion. That is a difficult achievement, and an encouraging one.”—In These Times

“On the one hand we have the established media, the respectable community of foreign affairs analysts, the government—and on the other, Noam Chomsky.”—Nation

“For Chomsky, the ‘official doctrine’ ... of military intervention to safeguard human rights is as much a sham as the ‘New World Order’ trumpeted during the Gulf War.”—Guardian

“A 20th-century Rousseau.”—The Boston Globe

Noam Chomsky is Institute Professor in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the author of American Power and the New Mandarins, Manufacturing Consent (with Ed Herman), Deterring Democracy, Year 501, World Orders Old and New, Powers and Prospects, Profit over People, The New Military Humanism and Rogue States.