FWIW: Noam Chomsky: 3hr interview at NOON-EST (+6pm, +Midnight) Off subject, for sure, but since this guy seems to be "persona non grata" in U.S. media (although much seen & heard elsewhere), if you've ever been curious about him, here's maybe your one and only chance to see and hear him, *ever* (at least in *this* country). Even if you're on the mid or far right, you might want to at least tape the program; maybe a spouse or other relative or friend might like to see it someday. Likewise, *you* might "ought" to see it, if only to better understand the intricacies, strengths, and weaknesses of the other side's thinking, or for plotting against. NOTE: this is on C-SPAN2, not C-SPAN ("one"). Pretty much every cable system gets C-SPAN (during the week, covers the "House"). Unfortunately, not as many also provide C-SPAN2 (during the week, covers the Senate). "Booktv" is what C-SPAN2 calls its weekly weekend-bookprogram, consisting of 48-hours of book-discussions, each one led by the book's author(s), and usually an hour long. (As you'll note from the schedule below, many if not most of the books come from "the right". Their having Chomsky is unusual, to say the least.) Every week or two, they'll interview one author "in detail", for three hours, and they chose Chomsky for this weekend. The schedule below says the three-hour interview will be at noon today (Sunday) (E.S.T.), til 3pm (live, I believe), then repeated at 6pm (they say til 8, but being three hours long, it must really end at 9pm?), then once again at midnight, til 3am. To verify that the scheduled-times haven't changed, check out C-SPAN2's "booktv" web site, either directly, at www.booktv.org (click on "schedule"), or get there via c-span2: www.c-span2.org, and click on "booktv". ----- CALL-INS: According to the (very) long blurb down below, for the noon to 3pm show, you can phone in with questions & comments, or email them; perhaps they'll even use C-SPAN's usual two-phone-number scheme, one for the "left", one for the "right". ------- THIS WEEKEND'S BOOKTV SCHEDULE: [NOTE: "Program start times approximate AND ALL TIMES ARE EASTERN", add eg 3 for California] Schedule Grid - Saturday, May 31 8:00 am [7]Sol Stern, Breaking Free: Public School Lessons and the Imperative of School Choice 9:00 am [8]Douglas Brinkley, Wheels for the World 10:00 am [9]Robert Patterson, Dereliction of Duty: The Eyewitness Account of How Bill Clinton Compromised America's National Security 11:00 am Featured Program: [10]2003 Book Expo-Saturday Coverage 8:00 pm [11]The Program usually airing at this time has been pre-empted for our coverage of BookExpo in Los Angeles 8:00 pm Featured Program: [12]2003 Book Expo-Saturday Coverage 11:00 pm [13]The Program usually airing at this time has been pre-empted for our coverage of BookExpo in Los Angeles Schedule Grid - Sunday, June 1 5:00 am [14]Robert Harms, Suzannah Lessard, Nicholas Lemann, & Samantha Power, Unacknowledged Legislators Panel with Samantha Power, Robert Harms, Suzannah Lessard, and Nicholas Lemann 6:30 am [15]Bill McKibben, Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age 7:30 am [16]James Moore & Wayne Slater, Bush's Brain: How Karl Rove Made George W. Bush Presidential 8:30 am [17]Milt Bearden & James Risen, The Main Enemy: The Inside Story of the CIA's Final Showdown with the KGB 10:00 am [18]Ross Terrill, The New Chinese Empire: And What It Means for the United States 11:00 am Encore Booknotes: [19]Peter Brimelow, Alien Nation: Common Sense About America's Immigration Disaster *** 12:00 pm Featured Program: [20]In Depth: Noam Chomsky <<<==== CHOMSKY 3 HOURS 3:00 pm Featured Program: [21]2003 Book Expo-Sunday Coverage *** 6:00 pm Featured Program: [22]In Depth: Noam Chomsky <<<==== CHOMSKY 3(?) HOURS 8:00 pm [23]The Program usually airing at this time has been <----- wrong? pre-empted for our coverage of BookExpo in Los Angeles 9:00 pm Featured Program: [24]2003 Book Expo-Sunday Coverage 11:00 pm [25]The Program usually airing at this time has been pre-empted for our coverage of BookExpo in Los Angeles Schedule Grid - Monday, June 2 (ie VERY-LATE SUNDAY NIGHT) Programs *** 12:00 am Featured Program: [26]In Depth: Noam Chomsky <<<==== CHOMSKY 3 HOURS (SUNDAY MIDNIGHT til 3am) 3:00 am Featured Program: [27]2003 Book Expo-Sunday Coverage 6:00 am [28]William Odom, Fixing Intelligence: For a More Secure America 6:45 am [29]Dermot Quinn, Christopher Dawson's "Dynamics of World History" One way or the other, we ought to learn *something*, pro *or* con, from this guy. ------------- Here's C-SPAN2's blurb for (MIT professor) Chomsky: Featured Program A Weekly Look at Selected Book TV Programs ___________________________________________________ [Times are E.S.T.: add eg 3 for California]] On Sunday, June 1 at 12:00 pm and at 6:00 pm and Monday, June 2 at 12:00 am [ie SUNDAY MIDNIGHT] ___________________________________________________ In Depth: Noam Chomsky Description: Sunday, June 1 our guest on In Depth will be Noam Chomsky, professor of Linguistics at MIT University in Cambridge, MA. Mr. Chomsky is a political activist and critic of U.S. Foreign Policy. Beginning at 12pm eastern you can call in with your questions during the 3 hour program, or e-mail them to booktv@c-span.org. Books by Noam Chomsky: Logical Structure of Linguistic Theory. MIT Humanities Library. Microfilm. 1955. Syntactic Structures. The Hague: Mouton, 1957. Aspects of the Theory of Syntax. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1965 Cartesian Linguistics. New York: Harper and Row, 1965. with Morris Halle. Sound Pattern of English. New York: Harper and Row, 1968. Language and Mind. New York: Harcourt Brace & World, Inc., 1968. American Power and the New Mandarins. New York: Pantheon Books and London: Chatto & Windus, 1969. At War with Asia. New York: Pantheon Books, 1970. Current Issues in Linguistic Theory. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 1970. For Reasons of State. New York: Pantheon Books, 1970. Chomsky: Selected Readings, edited by J. Allen and P. Van Buren. London: Oxford University Press, 1971. Problems of Knowledge and Freedom. New York: Pantheon, 1971. Studies on Semantics in Generative Grammar. The Hague: Mouton, 1972. with Edward S. Herman. Counter-Revolutionary Violence: Bloodbaths in Fact and Propaganda, Module no. 57 Andover, MA: Warner Modular Publications, 1973. The Backroom Boys. Fontana/Collins: Great Britain, 1973. Peace in the Middle East? New York: Pantheon Books, 1974. Reflections on Language. New York: Pantheon Books, 1975. Essays on Form and Interpretation. North-Holland: Elsevier, 1977. Language and Responsibility. New York: Pantheon, 1978. Intellectuals and the State. Baarn, Netherlands: Internationale, Het Wereldvenster, 1978. East Timor and the Western Democracies. Spokesman Pamphlet, no. 67. Nottingham, UK: Spokesman, 1979. with Edward S. Herman. The Political Economy of Human Rights, vol. 1, The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism and vol. 2, After the Cataclysm: Postwar Indochina and the Reconstruction of Imperial Ideology. Boston: South End Press, 1979. Rules and Representations. New York: Columbia University Press and Oxford: Basil Blackwell Publisher, 1980. Between Massacres and Media, Debate on Press and the Intellectuals, edited by Change Collective (in Italian). Milan: Shakespeare and Co., 1981. Radical Priorities, edited by C.P. Otero. Montreal: Black Rose Books, 1981. Lectures on Government and Binding: The Pisa Lectures. Holland: Foris Publications, 1981. Towards a New Cold War: Essays on the Current Crisis and How We Got There. New York: Pantheon Books, 1982. Myth and Ideology in U.S. Foreign Policy. East Timor Human Rights Committee 1982. with J. Steele and J. Gittings. Super Powers in Collision, The New Cold War. England: Penguin Books, 1982. Language and the Study of Mind. Tokyo: Sansyusya Publishing Co. Ltd., 1982. Some Concepts and Consequences of the Theory of Government and Binding. Linguistic Inquiry Monograph Six. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1982. Noam Chomsky on The Generative Enterprise, A discussion with Riny Hyybregts and Henk van Riemsdijk. Dordrecht: Foris Publications, 1982. The Fateful Triangle: Israel, the United States, and the Palestinians. Boston: South End Press, 1983 and Montreal: Black Rose Books, 1984. Responses Inedites. A mes detracteurs parisiens. Paris: Spartacus, 1984. Modular Approaches to the Study of the Mind. San Diego: State University Press, 1984. Escrits Politiques: 1977-1983. Peyrehoradel, France: Editions Acratie, 1984. Centroamerica en la prensa estadunidense. Entrevistas y textos de Noam Chomsky, edited by H. Dieterich. Coyoacan, Mexico: Mex-Sur Editorial S.A., 1985. Turning the Tide. U.S. Intervention in Central America and the Struggle for Peace. Boston: South End Press, 1985. with M. Albert, L. Cagan, R. Hahnel, M. King, L. Sargent, and H. Sklar. Liberating Theory. Boston: South End Press, 1986. Os Estados Unidos e Timor-Leste. Cascais, Portugal: Mandragora, 1986. Pirates & Emperors. International Terrorism in the Real World. New York: Claremont Research and Publications, 1986. Knowledge of Language: Its Nature, Origin, and Use. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1986. Barriers. Linguistic Inquiry Monograph Thirteen. Cambridge, MA and London: The MIT Press, 1986. Arbeit Sprache Freiheit. Trafik, Mulheim an der Ruhr, 1987. On Power and Ideology:The Managua Lectures. Montreal and New York: Black Rose Books, 1987. The Chomsky Reader, edited by J. Peck. New York: Pantheon Books, New York, 1987. On Power and Ideology, The Managua Lectures. Boston: South End Press and Montreal and New York: Black Rose Books, 1987. Language and Problems of Knowledge. The Managua Lectures. Cambridge, MA and London: The MIT Press, 1987 Language in a Psychological Setting. Sophia Linguistica: Working Papers in Linguistics, no. 22, 1987. The Culture of Terrorism. Boston: South End Press, 1988. The Culture of Terrorism. Montreal and New York: Black Rose Books, 1988. Language and Politics, edited by C. Otero. Montreal and New York: Black Rose Books, 1988. Generative Grammar: Its Basis, Development and Prospects. Studies in English Linguistics and Literature, Special Issue, 1988. with E. Herman. Manufacturing Consent. The Political Economy of the Mass Media. New York: Pantheon Books, 1988. Necessary Illusions. Thought Control in Democratic Societies. Boston: South End Press; London: Pluto Press; Montreal, Toronto, New York, London: CBC Enterprises, 1989. On U.S. Gulf Policy. Open Magazine Pamphlet Series, no 1. Westfield, NJ:Open Media, 1991. The New World Order. Open Magazine Pamphlet Series, no. 6. Westfield,NJ: Open Media, 1991. Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda. Open Magazine Pamphlet Series, no. 10. Westfield, NJ: Open Media, 1991. The Power Of The New Order (in German). Summary of speech by Noam Chomsky given on May 4, 1992. What Uncle Sam Really Wants. Berkeley, CA: Odonian Press, 1992. Chronicles of Dissent. Monroe, ME: Common Courage Press, 1992. Enter a World That Is Truly Surreal: President Clinton's Sudden Use ofInternational Violence. Open Magazine Pamphlet Series, Special Broadside. Westfield, NJ: Open Media, 1993. Letters from Lexington: Reflections on Propaganda. Monroe, ME: Common Courage Press and Toronto, Ontario: Between the Lines, 1993.. Year 501: The Conquest Continues. Boston: South End Press, 1993. Rethinking Camelot: JFK, the Vietnam War, and U.S. Political Culture. Boston: South End Press, 1993. The Prosperous Few and the Restless Many. Berkeley, CA: Odonian Press, 1993. Die Herren Der Welt. Berlin: Mink Verlag, 1993. Discurs Politic: Tres Converencies a Catalunya. Barcelona: Editorial Empuries, 1993. Language and Thought. Wakefield, RI: Moyer Bell, 1993. World Orders, Old and New. Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 1994. Keeping the Rabble in Line: Interviews with David Barsamian. Monroe, ME: Common Courage Press, 1994. Secrets, Lies and Democracy. Berkeley, CA: Odonian Press, 1994. East Timor: Genocide in Paradise. Tucson, AZ: Odonian Press, 1995. The Minimalist Program. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1995 Class Warfare: Interviews with David Barsamian. Monroe, ME: Common Courage Press, 1996. Powers and Prospects: Reflections on Human Nature and the Social Order. St. Leonards, Australia: Allen & Unwin, 1996. The Common Good. The Real Story Series, edited by Authur Niaman. Monroe, ME: Common Courage Press, Odonian Press, 1998. On Language: Chomskys Classsic Works Language and Responsibility and Reflections on Language in One Volume. New York: The New Press, 1998. The Umbrella of U.S. Power: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Contradictions of U.S. Policy. The Open Media Pamphlet Series, edited by Greg Ruggiero and Stuart Sahulka, no. 9. New York: Seven Stories Press, 1999. Profit Over People: Neoliberalism and Global Order. New York: Seven Stories Press, 1999. The New Military Humanism: Lessons from Kosovo. Monroe, ME: Common Courage Press, 1999. Derivation by Phase, MIT Occasional Papers in Linguistics, no. 18, Cambridge, MA: MIT Working Papers in Linguistics, Department of Linguistic and Philosophy, 1999. New Horizons in the Study of Language and Mind. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2000. The Architecture of Language, edited by Nirmalangshu Mukherji, Bibudhendra Narayan Patnaik andRama Kant Agnihotri. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2000. Minimalist Inquiries: The Framework. In Step by Step: Essays in Minimalist Syntax in Honor of Howard Lasnik, edited by Robert Martin, David Michaels and Juan Uriagereka, 89-155. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2000. Rogue States: The Rule of Force in World Affairs. Cambridge, MA: South End Press, 2000. A New Generation Draws the Line: Kosovo, East Timor and the Standards of the West. London and New York: Verso, 2000. Chomsky on MisEducation, edited and introduced by Donaldo Macedo. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2000. Atti di aggressione e di controllo, Milano: Marco Tropea Editore, 2000. Actos de agresión, Barcelona: Editorial Crítica, 2000. Propaganda and the Public Mind: Conversatioins with Noam Chomsky. Cambridge, MA: South End Press, 2001.. La Conférence DAlbuquerque. Paris: Editions Allia, 2001. De la guerre comme politique étrangère des États-Unis, Marseille: Agone Éditeur; Montreal: Comeau & Nadeau Éditeurs, 2001. Instinct de liberté: Anarchisme et socialisme. Montreal: Comeau & Nadeau Éditeurs; Marseille: Agone Éditeur, 2001. 9-11. An Open Media Book, edited by Greg Ruggerio. New York: Seven Stories Press, 2001. Deux heures de lucidité: Entretiens avec Denis Robert et Weronika Zarachowicz. Paris: Èditions des Arènes 2001. De lespoir en lavenir: Entretiens sur lanarchisme et le socialisme. Montreal: Comeau & Nadeau Éditeurs; Marseille: Agone Éditeur, 2001. Amerikan müdahaleciligi. Istanbul: Aram Yayincilik, 2001. Su natura e linguaggio (On Nature and Language), edited by Adriana Belletti and Luigi Rizzi. Siena, Italy, 2001. On Nature and Language, edited by Adriana Belletti and Luigi Rizzi. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2002 Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky, edited by Peter R. Mitchell and John Schoeffel. The New Press, 2002. Pirates & Emperors, Old and New: International Terrorism in the Real World. Cambridge, MA: South End Press, 2002. Power and Terror: Post-9/11 Talks and Interviews. Edited by John Junkerman and Takei Masakazu. New York: Seven Stories Press, 2003. Chomsky on Democracy and Education. Edited by Carlos P. Otero. New York and London: RoutledgeFalmer, 2003. Publisher: South End Press 7 Brookline Street #1 Cambridge, MA 02139