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🗓️ 28 May 2025
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0:00.0 | And thanks to the new school, thanks to Jasmine and to Kate at the new school for arranging our event tonight. |
0:08.0 | And to Posman Books, who are outside selling copies of not just the new book, but also all of our panelists have written super-hard books and then all on sale outside. |
0:24.6 | Thanks to C-SPAN, who are here filming this event tonight. |
0:28.6 | Also, I'd like to thank Dennis Boydhae of Democracy Now, who is very helpful in writing this. |
0:34.6 | And Sarah Bouchdell of Penguin Penguin Press is here and she is the editor |
0:39.3 | without whom this book would be much less readable and accessible. |
0:45.3 | So we're here tonight because, you know, this book, The Myth of American Idealism, |
0:52.3 | was released yesterday. I co-authored it with Professor |
0:56.3 | Young Chomsky. It was one of the highlights of my life, my biting life. But unfortunately, |
1:04.5 | I mean, during the process, near the end of putting this book together with Professor Chomsky, |
1:10.1 | his health declined, and he is unable |
1:14.6 | to continue making public appearances. So when the book came out, when it finally came out, we thought, |
1:19.6 | well, one thing we could do is we could convene a panel of people who are intimately familiar |
1:25.6 | with his life and the work to talk about it and |
1:29.6 | talk about why they find his contributions so valuable. |
1:34.9 | I just want to say why, you know, for me, for me personally what that is. |
1:39.2 | Just to give you a little bit of the background here, I run this magazine, Current Affairs. We can subscribe outside if you like. |
1:48.0 | We have a special discount for people who have attended this event. We're an independent, non-profit, Lefty magazine. |
1:55.0 | We're very inspired by the work of Noam Tomsky, who I was introduced to in high school. |
2:05.8 | Someone gave me a copy of failed states, and I had the experience that a lot of people have when they first encountered Chomsky, which is, I think you would describe it as kind of eye-opening. |
2:11.8 | What he did, in addition to being one of the most cited scholars in cognitive science and linguistics of all time, |
2:21.9 | what he did in the realm of politics and foreign policy was to meticulously expose propaganda and mythology, |
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