Powers and Prospects: Reflections on Human Nature and the Social Order
This unique collection showcases Noam Chomsky’s brilliant and boundless insight into a wide range of topics of critical importance, from human nature and language to international politics and the New World Order.

Chomsky’s linguistics chapters are accessible and interesting to the lay reader, and offer a good introduction to Chomsky’s philosophy of language and science.

The chapters on politics provide an important and necessary critique of the political and social status quo, and address key issues of the day: the Middle East "peace process," East Timor, and the global economy.