Noam Chomsky on Power, Sanctions & Nuclear Risk — The Origins Podcast (5‑min)
Update: 2025-11-26
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Hook: Power often hides behind moral language — and Noam Chomsky pulls that mask off. This condensed summary (original 2 hours → new 5 minutes) of Lawrence Krauss’s conversation with Noam Chomsky cuts to the heart of foreign policy, nuclear danger, and domestic politics. Learn why intellectuals so often fail dissent, how sanctions function in practice, and why nuclear brinkmanship and missile defenses remain existential threats. Krauss and Chomsky trace Vietnam, Cuba, Brazil’s democratic backslide, Trump’s political mechanics, China’s economic rise, and debates over campus free speech and censorship. Key takeaways: understand sanctions on Venezuela and Iran, the hypocrisy of “kicking away the ladder” in trade and IP, the political utility of fear, and the real stakes of limited nuclear use. Keywords: foreign policy, nuclear risk, sanctions, Trump, Brazil, China, Venezuela, Iran, free speech, democracy. Listen now to get the key ideas in minutes.
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