TY - BOOK AU - Noam Chomsky AU - POLYCHRONIOU (C J) TI - Illegitimate Authority: Facing the Challenges of Our Time SN - 9780241629949 U1 - 327.73 23 PY - 2023/// CY - London PB - Penguin Books KW - Geopolitics KW - United States KW - Democracy KW - Green New Deal N2 - 'One of the greatest, most radical public thinkers of our time' Arundhati Roy In these wide-ranging and incisive interviews, Chomsky addresses the urgent questions of this tumultuous time, speaking to the rapidly deteriorating quality of democracy in the United States and rising tensions globally. He examines the crumbling of the social fabric and the fractures of the Biden era, including the halting steps toward a Green New Deal, the illegitimate authority of the Supreme Court, in particular its decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, and the ongoing fallout from COVID-19. Chomsky also untangles the roots of the War in Ukraine, the diplomatic tensions among the United States, China, and Russia, and considers the need for climate action on an international scale ER -