American Power and the New Mandarins

by Noam Chomsky · 1969
Cover of American Power and the New Mandarins

Mentioned in 1 episodes across 1 podcast: Joe Rogan Experience.

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ISBN 9780394705552

About the book

The book that established Noam Chomsky’s reputation as a leading critic of US foreign policy, this statement against the American war in Vietnam critiques the contradictions of the war, indicting the mainstream, liberal intellectuals - the “new mandarins”–who gave ideological cover for the war.

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Joe Rogan Experience

  • #2547 - Daniel Everett · 2026-08-27 · with Daniel Everett
    “And if you're a linguist and you're studying linguistics, that's just genius. It is just brilliant. And then the next book, which he published the same year, was American Power and the New Manderins, which was about Vietnam. And that was also brilliant. And you know, for one person to publish two books like that in…”
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