This year has witnessed mass protests throughout the Middle East and North Africa, a labor upsurge in Wisconsin, continued struggles against the Israeli occupation of Palestine, and continued problems for radicals in finding their direction through it all. These concerns were discussed when celebrated intellectual Noam Chomsky was asked six questions by Alice Walker, Ken Loach, Chris Hedges, John Berger, Amira Hass and Paul Laverty.

Moments of crisis are times of opportunity for the Right as much as the Left -- especially when the Left is not actively organizing the disaffected. So argued Noam Chomsky in a talk at Left Forum about crisis, reaction, and the backlash against "big government." The Indian writer Arundhati Roy also was there and spoke on Obama, democracy, and political repression in her country.

He's one of the most influential intellectuals of our age -- cited in more academic works than almost any other living scholar -- and yet many progressives are not familiar with his libertarian socialist ideas. Noam Chomsky talks about anarchism, the state, conspiracy theories, science and the Enlightenment.