sorry excuse for an index you find in most books.)
I’ve tried to define terms and identify people you may be
unfamiliar with the first time they’re mentioned. T hese explanatory
notes appear in this typeface [inside square brackets]. If you run
across a term or name you don’t recognize, check its index entry
for an italicized page number (which will usually be the first page on
which the term appears).
Some of the original books contained supplemental material:
notes, titles of other books by Chomsky, lists of organizations worth
supporting, and so on. While Chomsky’s ideas haven’t gone out of
date, those sections of the books mostly have, so they aren’t
included in this volume.
Although the talks and interviews compiled in this book originally
took place in the 1990s (and some even in the late 1980s), I think
you’ll find Chomsky’s take on things more insightful than virtually
anything you hear on the airwaves or read in the papers today. His
analyses are so deep and farsighted that they only seem to get more
timely—and startling—with age. Read a few pages and see if you
don’t agree.
Arthur Naiman