For Reasons of State

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>An essential record of Chomsky's political and social thought as it was sharpened during the upheavals in domestic and international affairs of the early 1970s </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>For Reasons of State</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> includes articles on the war in Vietnam and the wider war in Laos and Cambodia an extensive dissection of the Pentagon Papers reflections on the role of force in international affairs essays on civil disobedience and the use of the university and a now-classic introduction to anarchism. These essays reveal very different facets of Chomsky's power as a thinker from his uncanny ability to join abstract philosophical considerations with the concrete political realities of his time to his singular capacity to mount withering fact-based critiques of American foreign policy. Following The New Press's reissue of </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>American Power and the New Mandarins</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>For Reasons of State</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> is a major addition to the intellectual history of the Vietnam era.</span></p>