I was thinking about reading Noam Chomsky's
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media so I watched the documentary about his life last week. (I confess - the documentary was poorly cut and amateur in its presentation.) But production value aside - there was a scene where Chomsky walks down a hall to his office, and a Bertrand Russell portrait is visible on the wall right at his office door.
I knew immediately what I'd be reading this weekend. I've put off reading his critical essays for far too long!
