An Interview with Noam Chomsky

From: Crisis and Contagion

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In this chapter, Ian McKay interviews Noam Chonksy about issues relating to COVID-19. As a public intellectual and bordercrosser, he draws upon a wide variety of disciplinary fields and pushes at the frontiers of the public imagination while reminding us of the need to feel and act upon a passion for a commitment to a free, just, and equal society. He rightly insists that, in the end, there is no democracy without informed citizens and no justice without a language critical of injustice. He has made clear that we live in dangerous times and that there’s an urgent need for more individuals, institutions, and social movements to come together in the belief that the current regimes of tyranny can be resisted, that alternative futures are possible, and that acting on those beliefs through collective resistance will enable social change to happen. Professor Chomsky’s work is infused with a vision that merges a sense of moral outrage with the need for civic courage and collective action.