9. TOWARD A BETTER SOCIETY

  1.    Merriam-Webster, “Gallery: Word of the Year 2015.” Available online at: https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/word-of-the-year-2015. Catherine Rampell, “Millennials Have a Higher Opinion of Socialism Than of Capitalism,” Washington Post, 5 February 2016. Available online at: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/rampage/wp/2016/02/05/millennials-have-a-higher-opinion-of-socialism-than-of-capitalism/.

  2.    Statement by Hugo Chávez at 61st United Nations General Assembly, 20 September 2006. Available online at: http://www.un.org/webcast/ga/61/pdfs/venezuela-e.pdf.

  3.    Mark Tran, “Indian Student Leader Accused of Sedition ‘Beaten Up by Lawyers,’” Guardian, 17 February 2016.

  4.    Arundhati Roy, et al., The Hanging of Afzal Guru and the Strange Case of the Attack on the Indian Parliament, rev. ed. (Delhi: Penguin India, 2016).

  5.    BBC News, “India Student Leader Held on Sedition Charges,” 12 February 2016. Available online at: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-35560518.

  6.    David Barstow and Suhasini Raj, “Indian Muslim, Accused of Stealing a Cow, Is Beaten to Death by a Hindu Mob,” New York Times, 4 November 2015. Available online at: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/05/world/asia/hindu-mob-kills-another-indian-muslim-accused-of-harming-cows.html.

  7.    Leonard Weiss, “What Do Past Nonproliferation Failures Say About the Iran Nuclear Agreement?” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 1 September 2015. Available online at: http://thebulletin.org/what-do-past-nonproliferation-failures-say-about-iran-nuclear-agreement8706.

  8.    Matthew Weaver, “Chomsky Hits Back at Erdoğan, Accusing Him of Double Standards on Terrorism,” Guardian, 14 January 2016. Available online at: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jan/14/chomsky-hits-back-erdogan-double-standards-terrorism-bomb-istanbul.

  9.    Tuvan Gumrukcu and Orhan Coskun, “Turkey’s Erdogan Blames Kurdish Militants After Bomb Kills at Least 13, Wounds 56,” Reuters, 17 December 2016. Available online at: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-turkey-blast-idUSKBN14605H.

  10.  Human Rights Watch, “Turkey: Mounting Security Operation Deaths,” 22 December 2015. Available online at: https://www.hrw.org/news/2015/12/22/turkey-mounting-security-operation-deaths.

  11.  Agence France-Presse, “Turkish Journalists Charged over Claim That Secret Services Armed Syrian Rebels,” Guardian, 26 November 2015. Available online at: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/27/turkish-journalists-charged-over-claim-that-secret-services-armed-syrian-rebels.

  12.  Reporters Without Borders, “RSF Launches International Appeal for Release of Cumhuriyet Journalists,” 1 December 2015. Available online at: https://rsf.org/en/news/rsf-launches-international-appeal-release-cumhuriyet-journalists.

  13.  Noam Chomsky and Christophe Deloire, “Turkey Continues to Muzzle Democracy’s Watchdogs,” Washington Post, 12 November 2015. Available online at: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/turkey-muzzles-democracys-watchdogs/2015/11/12/09c55400-895d-11e5-be8b-1ae2e4f50f76_story.html?utm_term=.1d13e370ae26.

  14.  Wes Enzinna, “A Dream of Secular Utopia in ISIS’ Backyard,” New York Times Magazine, 24 November 2015. Available online at: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/29/magazine/a-dream-of-utopia-in-hell.html.

  15.  Thomas Ferguson, Golden Rule: The Investment Theory of Party Competition and the Logic of Money-Driven Political Systems (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995).

  16.  Lee Fang, “Gerrymandering Rigged the 2014 Elections for GOP Advantage,” BillMoyers.com, 5 November 2016. Available online at: http://billmoyers.com/2014/11/05/gerrymandering-rigged-2014-elections-republican-advantage/.

  17.  Adam Liptak, “Supreme Court Invalidates Key Part of Voting Rights Act,” New York Times, 25 June 2013. Available online at: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/26/us/supreme-court-ruling.html.

  18.  Rory McVeigh, David Cunningham, and Justin Farrell, “Political Polarization as a Social Movement Outcome: 1960s Klan Activism and Its Enduring Impact on Political Realignment in Southern Counties, 1960–2000,” American Sociological Review 79, no. 6 (2014): 1144–71. Available online at: http://www.brandeis.edu/now/2014/december/cunningham-kkk-impact.html.

  19.  Walter Dean Burnham, “The Changing Shape of the American Political Universe,” American Political Science Review 59, no. 1 (March 1965): 7–28.

  20.  Noam Chomsky, “2016 Harvard Trade Union Program,” 22 January 2016. Transcript and audio available from Alternative Radio: https://www.alternativeradio.org/products/chon247.

  21.  Jack Shenker, The Egyptians: A Radical Story (New York: New Press, 2016).

  22.  Declan Walsh, “A Mercedes Shortage? Egypt’s Economic Crisis Hits the Rich,” New York Times, 11 March 2016.

  23.  Neil MacFarquhar and Merna Thomas, “Russian Airliner Crashes in Egypt, Killing 224,” New York Times, 31 October 2015. Available online at: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/01/world/middleeast/russian-plane-crashes-in-egypt-sinai-peninsula.html.

  24.  Noam Chomsky, What Kind of Creatures Are We? (New York: Columbia University Press, 2015).

  25.  Noam Chomsky interviewed by David Barsamian, “The Multiple Crises of Neoliberal Capitalism and the Need for a Global Working Class Response,” International Socialist Review 101 (Summer 2016). Available online at: http://isreview.org/issue/101/multiple-crises-neoliberal-capitalism-and-need-global-working-class-response.