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Noam Chomsky and Paul Craig Roberts: A Conversation

Wednesday, October 1, 2014 13:31

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TND Guest Contributor: Dr. Paul Craig Roberts |

Rob Kall of OpEdNews arranged a conversation between myself and Noam Chomsky.

It is available as an audio podcast. Click here to access the interview.

I very much appreciate Noam Chomsky’s courage and involvement. Professor Chomsky’s work in linguistics made him a major academic figure. He could have lived a very comfortable university life, but he took his commitment to truth into the broader world, was arrested in war protests, made President Nixon’s enemies list, and became the prominent activist and public intellectual of our time. Few Americans have demonstrated the intelligence and bravery of Noam Chomsky or supplied such participatory leadership in main events of our time.

Unjustified authority, Chomsky says, is inherently illegitimate. The authority that Washington has assumed over other countries, invading, bombing, and sanctioning, and over the American people by eroding their civil liberties guaranteed by the US Constitution, is unjustified and illegitimate. The clearest fact of our time is the illegitimacy of the government in Washington.

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About Dr. Paul Craig Roberts:
Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy and associate editor of the Wall Street Journal. He was columnist for Business Week, Scripps Howard News Service, and Creators Syndicate. He has had many university appointments. His internet columns have attracted a worldwide following. His latest book, The Failure of Laissez Faire Capitalism and Economic Dissolution of the West is now available. His latest e-book, How the Economy was Lost, is available at Counter Punch. Click here and scroll down to order. Dr. Roberts discusses this book in an article published at CounterPunch.org; click here to read the article. To support The Institute For Political Economy, a non-profit organization that supports research, writing and books and Dr. Roberts’ continued effort to educate and inform, click here to donate.