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Noam Chomsky recently celebrated his 91st birthday. As an homage to Noam, I spent the day with one of his less-known books, The Backroom Boys (1973). The book is made up of two spectacular essays, the first a close reading of the Pentagon Papers. To read this book alongside the trove of documents released by the US government […]
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