noam chomsky. [applause] there's something wonderful said it about noam in the book, were taught, she spoke. may of 2003. she has a chapter, the loneliness of noam chomsky, where she writes when i first read it and noam chomsky it occurred to me that his marshaling of evidence, the volume of it, the relentlessness of it was a little, how shall i put it coming insane. [laughter] even a quarter of the evidence he had compiled was enough to convince me, i used to wonder why he needed to do so much work, but now i and a stand that the magnitude and intensity of his work as a barometer of that magnitude, scope and relentlessness of the propaganda machine that he is up against. he is like the one more who lives in san the third rack of my bookshelf, a day and night i hear his jaws crunching through the wood and riding into fine dust. it is as though he disagrees with the literature and wants to destroy the very structure on which rests. i call him a jump ski. [laughter] being an american working in ameri

the conversion of democracy to a performance in which the public are only [applause] >> noam chomsky,ssor emeritus at the massachusetts institute of technology is the author of dozens of book including failed states and the forthcoming hopes and prospects. the brecht forum hosted this event. to find out more visit brechtforum.org. >> we're at bookexpo america in new york city. the booth for regnery publishing with margini ross publisher and president of the press. what do you have coming out this season? >> well, we're actually very excited for several of our books in summer and fall and, of course, it's a good time to be a conservative publisher in washington, d.c. because there's a lot to talk about. our first book is a book by repeat bestselling author forna regnery it's the first anti-obama book coming from a publisher. michelle has done a real investigative reporter's job of looking at president obama, his team, who he's nominated, who he's brought in to work with him, who'som

the iranians who are a little bit over-leftist and have been here for 30 years and read too much noam chomsky and edward sayeed and that they are misunderstood and there's a lot of freedom in iran all the time and that certainly iran is made out to be a bogey man and i think they sort of go too far in the liberal reading of iran as the victim and don't really recognize the iranian government for what it is at times. and so i think there's also a lot of iranians in the middle who have a more balanced view of all of these things and they tend to be a bit more silent. you don't hear from them as much. you hear from the loud liberals and the monarchists, it seems. maybe here in washington because there's people who go about and talk about iran and you can sort of tap into a kind of debate on the outside of the country that a sense of them being a moderate middle but i would imagine, you know, most iranians in the diaspora would just be happy to see -- to see a kind of improvement in relations that it would at least mean that their families could go back and back and forth. it's difficult for fami