How the World Works

The world's greatest public intellectual

Observer

One of the finest minds of the twentieth century

The New Yorker

When the sun sets on the American empire, as it will, as it must, Noam Chomsky's work will survive

Arundhati Roy

A rebel without a pause

Bono

Arguably the most important intellectual alive

The New York Times

The closest thing in the English-speaking world to an intellectual superstar

Guardian