[lbo-talk] fundraiser

Robert D. Day rdday at mchsi.com
Thu Jan 15 12:47:19 PST 2004


Here's a question for Chomsky that I never got to ask when he spoke at Illinois State University. I called out "Professor Chomsky," when he was at one of his numerous false stops during the question segment; he looked at me sympathetically and went on, as though he just couldn't help but answer a question about media ownership by way of Russian nuclear weapons, or some such tangent.

He's written a lot about the complicity of American public universities in various aspects of American Cold War interventions and adventures abroad - churning out weapons research in exchange for grants, FBI/CIA influence in scholarly journals and groups, maintaining liberal orthodoxies about foreign policy and anti-communism, etc. All of this while universities were/are perceived as bastions of radical thinking. What would Chomsky say is similar and different about the role of American universities in our current imperialist projects, Iraq, et al.?

--- Robert D. Day --- rdday at mchsi.com

----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com> To: "lbo-talk" <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org> Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 1:16 PM Subject: [lbo-talk] fundraiser

My stint on the WBAi fundraising marathon is next Thursday, 3-6 PM. I've got an interview with Noam Chomsky lined up already, but I'm looking for another marquee name to add to the mix - preferably female, possibly a domestic complement to Noam on the empire. Any ideas?

Also, any questions you'd like me to ask Chomsky? We record tomorrow afternoon.

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