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The Responsibility of Intellectuals 2019

By Nicholas Allott, N. V. Smith, Knight ALLOTT, Noam Chomsky, Chris Knight, Neil Smith

  • Other warfare & defence issues, History of ideas, Peace studies & conflict resolution, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000

With the publication of ?The Responsibility of Intellectuals? half a century ago, Noam Chomsky burst onto the US political scene as a leading critic of the war in Vietnam. Privilege, he argues, brings with it the responsibility to tell the truth and expose lies, but our intellectual culture only pays lip-service to this ideal.

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