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諾姆‧杭士基和合作已久的與談人大衛‧巴薩米恩以十二個訪談，來檢視當代社會的問題，呼籲大眾仔細看看我們將要留給後代的這個世界，正受到氣候變遷、可能即將發生的核子戰爭所影響，如果現存的系統無法解決這些問題，就應該藉由大眾之手徹底做改變。

這十二個訪談的主題包括ISIS的崛起、經濟狀況極度失衡、中東衝突不斷、川普出任美國總痛的效應等，杭士基認為這些問題都是引火柴，有一天終將釀成大火影響全世界。

本書為The American Empire Project其中一本書，本計畫是為了因應美國策略思考、經濟和軍事立場的改變作出的對策，美國帝國主義的潮流已危及和其他國家的關係，這個系列中的書籍則是來檢視這樣的狀況為何出現、思考其後果。

諾姆‧杭士基是國際知名的哲學家、思想家，對於當代美國政治社會提出許多精闢的評論，有大量的出版品，在美國政治、學術界持續活躍中。


In wide-ranging interviews with David Barsamian, his longtime interlocutor, Noam Chomsky asks us to consider "the world we are leaving to our grandchildren": one imperiled by the escalation of climate change and the growing potential for nuclear war. If the current system is incapable of dealing with these threats, he argues, it's up to us to radically change it. These ten interviews, conducted from 2013 to 2016, examine the latest developments around the globe: the devastation of Syria, the reach of state surveillance, growing anger over economic inequality, the place of religion in American political culture, and the bitterly contested 2016 U.S. presidential election. In accompanying personal reflections on his Philadelphia childhood and his eighty- seventh birthday, Chomsky also describes his own intellectual journey and the development of his uncompromising stance as America's premier dissident intellectual.