On the Nightstand

Profit Over People by Noam Chomsky characterizes neoliberalism as a fraudulent, corporate- and money-driven policy at the root of America's blackened political landscape. Driving his points home with characteristic intensity, he paints a bleak portrait in which corporate interests, media control by elites, a growing consumerist culture, an apathetic middle class, and a decades-long propaganda campaign about the benefits of free market capitalism vs. the evils of socialist policies, combine to asphyxiate any real attempt at democratic change. Grade: A