Hope and despair – the experience of the 1930s and the crisis today

Feature by Noam Chomsky, December 2008
As he reaches his 80th birthday this month, Noam Chomsky looks at Barack Obama’s victory, today’s economic crisis and his memories of a childhood shaped by the 1930s Depression.
I’m old enough to remember the Depression. Some of my earliest childhood memories are of people coming to the door trying to [...]