Noam Chomsky is institute professor emeritus in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and laureate professor in the Agnes Nelms Haury Program in Environment and Social Justice at the University of Arizona. His work is widely credited with having revolutionized the field of modern linguistics, and he is equally renowned for his incisive writings on global affairs and U.S. foreign policy. The single most cited and published living author, winner of numerous international awards, Chomsky has written over one hundred books, including the bestselling political works 
Hegemony or Survival, 
Failed States, and 
Who Rules the World?. 
Nathan J. Robinson is the cofounder and editor in chief of 
Current Affairs magazine. He is the author of 
Why You Should Be a Socialist and 
Responding to the Right, and his articles have appeared in 
The New York Times, 
The Washington Post, and 
The New Republic, among others. Robinson holds a JD from Yale Law School and a PhD in sociology and social policy from Harvard University.