"Zinn talks about Obama and the “possibility of change.” It seems odd to be asking this of an octogenarian but: Exactly how much time do you think we have?"

Chomsky's version of anarchism, challenging coercive institutions to justify themselves, is not terribly exciting. But I thought this article did a good job summarizing one of his typical speeches (especially for a publication called "The American Conservative").

"From 1945 onwards, J Edgar Hoover’s FBI spied on Camus and Sartre. The investigation soon turned into a philosophical inquiry…"