By Bernard E. Harcourt In his Dewey lectures from 2013, Noam Chomsky embraces anarchism as, what he calls, “a reasonable approximation of the common good.”[1] He traces modern anarchism historically to the classical liberal tradition that emerged in the Enlightenment,… Continue Reading
By Che Gossett There’s a wealth of interdisciplinary inquiry and study, weaving together cognitive science, political theory, biolinguistics, history (and much more!) as always, that you present readers and audiences through your work in general, and in the 2013 Dewey… Continue Reading
From Noam Chomsky for the Utopia 6/13 seminar I am attaching something you might circulate, particularly since it was a lecture at Columbia: the third part of the attached, on the common good. Dewey lectures from a few years ago.… Continue Reading
By Che Gossett and Bernard E. Harcourt After Noam Chomsky presents his preliminary thoughts on the importance of planting “the seeds of the future in our present,” as he writes in his Preface to Michael Albert’s book Practical Utopias, we… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt “Many commentators dismiss anarchism as utopian… One might, however, argue rather differently: that at every stage of history our concern must be to dismantle those forms of authority and oppression that survive from an era when… Continue Reading