| Introduction : the third emancipatory phase of history | 9 | |
| 1 | The intellectual as prophet (11 April 1968) | 59 |
| 2 | A Cartesian view of language structure (May 1968) | 75 |
| 3 | The creative experience (winter 1969) | 89 |
| 4 | Linguistics and politics (spring 1969) | 103 |
| 5 | The major problem of the limits to growth (fall 1972) | 119 |
| 6 | Language structure and behaviorist psychology (November 1972) | 127 |
| 7 | The universities and the corporations (May 1973) | 135 |
| 8 | Class consciousness and the ideology of power (January 1974) | 143 |
| 9 | Materialism in linguistics and the morality criterion (28 March 1977) | 171 |
| 10 | Oil imperialism and the U.S.-Israel relationship (March 1977) | 185 |
| 11 | Language theory and the theory of justice (13 October 1977) | 203 |
| 12 | Language and the human mind (29 September 1978) | 221 |
| 13 | Ideological reconstruction after Vietnam (7 June 1979) | 243 |
| 14 | On human rights and ideology (October 1979) | 253 |
| 15 | An American view of the ideological confrontation of our time (3 February 1980) | 259 |
| 16 | U.S. defense responsibility? (8 April 1981) | 273 |
| 17 | Human rights and American foreign policy (21 September 1981) | 277 |
| 18 | The treachery of the intelligentsia : a French travesty (16 October 1981) | 287 |
| 19 | The intelligence identities protection act (January 1982) | 299 |
| 20 | The barbarism of non-communist monsters (spring 1982) | 307 |
| 21 | The lessons of the Vietnam War (October 1982) | 313 |
| 22 | The disarmament debate : new directions (15 December 1982) | 321 |
| 23 | America in the world (1 February 1983) | 329 |
| 24 | Priorities for the peace movement (4 June 1983) | 335 |
| 25 | Politics and science (16 June 1983) | 341 |
| 26 | The manufacture of consent (Summer 1983) | 359 |
| 27 | Language as a key to human nature and society (24 September 1983) | 367 |
| 28 | Things no amount of learning can teach (November 1983) | 375 |
| 29 | What's new in Reagan's program? (13 November 1983) | 389 |
| 30 | American Middle East policy (18 October 1984) | 407 |
| 31 | The media as a mirror of society - but not quite in the usual sense (21 October 1984) | 423 |
| 32 | Knowledge of language, human nature, and the role of intellectuals (2 November 1984) | 429 |
| 33 | Tactics and strategies for the peace movement (November 1984) | 447 |
| 34 | Aspects of a theory of mind (December 1984) | 453 |
| 35 | Politics and language (1 December 1984) | 471 |
| 36 | Israel : the strategic asset (23 March 1985) | 487 |
| 37 | Alternatives to the Cold War (5 October 1985) | 503 |
| 38 | The question for Canadians - and not only Canadians (November 1985) | 509 |
| 39 | The first prime-time bombing in history (late April 1986) | 519 |
| 40 | The right turn in U.S. policy (22 October 1986) | 527 |
| 41 | Political discourse and the propaganda system (24 October 1986) | 541 |
| 42 | A really new way of looking at language (November 1987) | 575 |
| 43 | Techniques of marginalization (24 January 1988) | 583 |
| 44 | The cognitive revolution, I (26 January 1988) | 607 |
| 45 | The cognitive revolution, II (28 January 1988) | 629 |
| 46 | Helping people persuade themselves (15 February 1988) | 645 |
| 47 | A historic shift in American politics (16 March 1988) | 661 |
| 48 | The only state officially committed to terrorism (30 March 1988) | 669 |
| 49 | A candid view of Israel and the occupied territories (May 1988) | 673 |
| 50 | No stone left unturned (23 March 1988) | 693 |
| 51 | The plague of the modern age (25 May 1988) | 701 |
| 52 | Building up for military attack (29 October 1990) | 713 |
| 53 | After the fall (22 November 1991) | 721 |
| 54 | From "communism" to "terrorism" and the "drug war" (21 February 2002) | 737 |
| 55 | The fateful triangle : a fearful asymmetry (2 April 2002) | 743 |
| 56 | The enormous impact of state-directed international terrorism (3 July 2002) | 749 |
| 57 | The Iraq operation, before and after (29 August 2002, 12 April 2003) | 755 |
| 58 | Marxism, anarchism, and alternative futures (May 1995) | 775 |
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