title: For Reasons of State
text: # For Reasons of State
  
  For Reasons of State is a 1973 collection of political essays by Noam Chomsky.
  
  ## Contents
  
  * The Backroom Boys
  * The Wider War
  * The Rule of Force in International Affairs
  * Indochina: The Next Phase
  * On the Limits of Civil Disobedience
  * The Function of the University in a Time of Crisis
  * Psychology and Ideology
  * Notes on Anarchism
  * Language and Freedom
  