Noam Chomsky: Let's Get Essential

Morphizm pal and Iraq: The Logic of Withdrawal author Anthony Arnove is one busy dude. He's been working with Howard Zinn on translating their Voices of a People's History of the United States compilation into a PBS mega-documentary. But he's also compiling the wisdom of another interested public intellectual into another collection. This time around, it's Noam Chomsky, who gets assembled by Arnove into an accessible exercise in brain augmentation called The Essential Chomsky.

It's already got a positive blurb from Hugo Chavez, so it's sure to be a thorn in the side of those in the mainstream, which is why Morphizm is such pals with Arnove and Zinn in the first place. If you're not a thorn, then you're on the wrong side, people. Chomsky, for his part, hasn't been: He's applied the rigors of math, science and linguistics to Everyday Life, and found abuses of power everywhere. So the mainstream can cry all they want, but the little people understand. They understand just fine.