Chomsky and Dershowitz On Endless War and the End of Civil Liberties |
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| Author:
| Friel, Howard |
| ISBN: | 978-1-56656-974-3 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 2013 |
| Publisher: | Interlink Publishing Group, Incorporated
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| Imprint: | Olive Branch Press |
| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $20.00 |
Book Description:
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Through the lens of a careful assessment of the political views of MIT's Noam Chomsky and Harvard's Alan Dershowitz - the two protagonists of a Cambridge-based feud over the past forty years - author Howard Friel chronicles an American intellectual history from the U.S. war in Vietnam in the 1960s to the contemporary debate about the Israel-Palestine conflict. Major findings reveal the consistency of Chomsky's principled support of international law, human rights, and civil liberties,...
More DescriptionThrough the lens of a careful assessment of the political views of MIT's Noam Chomsky and Harvard's Alan Dershowitz - the two protagonists of a Cambridge-based feud over the past forty years - author Howard Friel chronicles an American intellectual history from the U.S. war in Vietnam in the 1960s to the contemporary debate about the Israel-Palestine conflict. Major findings reveal the consistency of Chomsky's principled support of international law, human rights, and civil liberties, and a reversal by Dershowitz from support in the 1960s to opposition of those legal standards today. Friel's volume argues that a Chomskyan adherence by the United States to international law and human rights would reduce the threat of terrorism and preserve civil liberties, that the Dershowitz-backed war on terrorism increases the threat of terrorism and undermines civil liberties, and that the incremental but steady transition toward a preventive state threatens the permanent suspension of civil liberties in the United States.