“The Instinct for Cooperation: A Graphic Novel Conversation with Noam Chomsky & Jeffrey Wilson. Illustrated by Eliseu Gouveia”

How about this for a hybrid: take an 80-something professor, sit him down for a conversation, and turn it into a graphic novel. It really shouldn’t work, but it does. Noam Chomsky has long been the world’s foremost intellectual, an unrivaled authority on human rights and world affairs. I would say he’s forgotten more than…

The Other 9/11: Chile in the time of Pinochet

A few days ago, my 10-year-old son asked me why I’d scheduled an event on 9/11. “Bad timing!” he said. He knew about the Twin Towers. But he didn’t know about 9/11/73, a date of infamy in Latin America. 9/11/73 was the day General Augusto Pinochet launched a military coup that ousted democratically elected Chilean…