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Taming the Rascal Multitude: Essays, Interviews, and Lectures 1997-2014
As Noam Chomsky writes about something—US foreign policy, corporate policies, an election, or a movement—he is not only quite specific in recounting the topic and its facts but also exercises blisteringly relentless logic to discern the interconnections between the evidence and broader themes involved. This may seem mundane, but virtually every time, even aside from the details of the case in question, the process, the steps, the ways of linking one thing to another illustrate what it means to be a thinking, critical subject of history and society, in any time and place.

Taming the Rascal Multitude is a judicious selection of essays and interviews from Z Magazine from 1997 to 2014. In each, Chomsky takes up some question of the moment. As such, in sum, the essays provide an historical overview of the history that preceded Trump and the reaction to Trump. The essays situate what followed even without having known what would follow. They explicate what preceded the current era and provide a step-by-step revelation or how-to for successfully comprehending social events and relations. They are a pleasure to read, much like the pleasure of watching a great athlete or performer, but they also edify. They educate.

Reading Chomsky is about understanding how society works, how people relate to society and social trends and patterns and why, and, beyond the specifics, how to approach events, relations, occurrences, trends, and patterns in a way that reveals their inner meanings and their outer connections and implications. It is like reading the best you can get about topic after topic, and, more, it is like watching a master-craftsmen in a discipline that ought to be all of ours understanding the world to change it.

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Taming the Rascal Multitude: Essays, Interviews, and Lectures 1997-2014
As Noam Chomsky writes about something—US foreign policy, corporate policies, an election, or a movement—he is not only quite specific in recounting the topic and its facts but also exercises blisteringly relentless logic to discern the interconnections between the evidence and broader themes involved. This may seem mundane, but virtually every time, even aside from the details of the case in question, the process, the steps, the ways of linking one thing to another illustrate what it means to be a thinking, critical subject of history and society, in any time and place.

Taming the Rascal Multitude is a judicious selection of essays and interviews from Z Magazine from 1997 to 2014. In each, Chomsky takes up some question of the moment. As such, in sum, the essays provide an historical overview of the history that preceded Trump and the reaction to Trump. The essays situate what followed even without having known what would follow. They explicate what preceded the current era and provide a step-by-step revelation or how-to for successfully comprehending social events and relations. They are a pleasure to read, much like the pleasure of watching a great athlete or performer, but they also edify. They educate.

Reading Chomsky is about understanding how society works, how people relate to society and social trends and patterns and why, and, beyond the specifics, how to approach events, relations, occurrences, trends, and patterns in a way that reveals their inner meanings and their outer connections and implications. It is like reading the best you can get about topic after topic, and, more, it is like watching a master-craftsmen in a discipline that ought to be all of ours understanding the world to change it.

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Taming the Rascal Multitude: Essays, Interviews, and Lectures 1997-2014

Taming the Rascal Multitude: Essays, Interviews, and Lectures 1997-2014

Taming the Rascal Multitude: Essays, Interviews, and Lectures 1997-2014

Taming the Rascal Multitude: Essays, Interviews, and Lectures 1997-2014

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As Noam Chomsky writes about something—US foreign policy, corporate policies, an election, or a movement—he is not only quite specific in recounting the topic and its facts but also exercises blisteringly relentless logic to discern the interconnections between the evidence and broader themes involved. This may seem mundane, but virtually every time, even aside from the details of the case in question, the process, the steps, the ways of linking one thing to another illustrate what it means to be a thinking, critical subject of history and society, in any time and place.

Taming the Rascal Multitude is a judicious selection of essays and interviews from Z Magazine from 1997 to 2014. In each, Chomsky takes up some question of the moment. As such, in sum, the essays provide an historical overview of the history that preceded Trump and the reaction to Trump. The essays situate what followed even without having known what would follow. They explicate what preceded the current era and provide a step-by-step revelation or how-to for successfully comprehending social events and relations. They are a pleasure to read, much like the pleasure of watching a great athlete or performer, but they also edify. They educate.

Reading Chomsky is about understanding how society works, how people relate to society and social trends and patterns and why, and, beyond the specifics, how to approach events, relations, occurrences, trends, and patterns in a way that reveals their inner meanings and their outer connections and implications. It is like reading the best you can get about topic after topic, and, more, it is like watching a master-craftsmen in a discipline that ought to be all of ours understanding the world to change it.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781629638782
Publisher: PM Press
Publication date: 04/26/2022
Pages: 448
Sales rank: 1,042,395
Product dimensions: 9.00(w) x 5.90(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

About The Author
Noam Chomsky is a laureate professor at the University of Arizona and professor emeritus in the MIT Department of Linguistics and Philosophy. His work is widely credited with having revolutionized the field of modern linguistics and Chomsky is one of the foremost critics of U.S. foreign policy. He has published numerous groundbreaking books, articles, and essays on global politics, history, and linguistics. His recent books include Who Rules the World-yet and Hopes and Prospects.


Michael Albert is an organizer, publisher, teacher, and author of over twenty books and hundreds of articles. He cofounded South End Press, Z Magazine, the Z Media Institute, ZNet, and various other projects, and works full time for Z Communications. He is the author of Practical Utopia: Strategies for a Desirable Society.


Lydia Sargent is a founder and original member of the South End Press Collective, as well as Z Magazine, which she co-edits and co-produces. Her plays include “I Read About My Death in Vogue Magazine” and “Playbook” with Maxine Klein and Howard Zinn. She is the editor of Women and Revolution: The Unhappy Marriage of Marxism and Feminism.

Table of Contents

Foreword vii

Part 1 1997-2004

Hordes of Vigilantes 2

Expanding the Floor of the Cage 8

Imperial Presidency 28

Market Democracy in a Neoliberal Order 45

Rogue States 71

Crisis in the Balkans 94

The Colombia Plan 111

Voting Patterns and Abstentions 126

The War in Afghanistan 129

What Makes Mainstream Media Mainstream? 139

Confronting the Empire 149

Iraq as Trial Run 163

The US and Haiti 170

Part 2 2005-2014

Cold War II 178

Kicking Away the Ladder 188

Wars, Bailouts, and Elections 201

Domestic Constituencies 213

Coups, UNASUR, and the US 230

The Obama-Netanyahu-Abbas Meetings 243

Torture Has Been Routine Practice 259

Obama on Israel-Palestine 271

Elections 2000 and 2008 278

Government Involvement with Science and Art 312

Human Rights in the New Millennium 322

The Unipolar Moment and the Obama Era 335

The US in Mexico and Elsewhere 350

Israel, Palestine, and Campus Activism 354

Imminent Crises 359

The Most Dangerous Belief 373

Afterword Michael Albert 393

Index 423

About the Authors 439

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