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Noam Chomsky
Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Noam Chomsky recounts how his anti-Vietnam War activities nearly jeopardized his family. Read More
The MIT linguistics professor on life without his wife. Read More
Noam Chomsky contemplates the basic, yet still unanswerable, questions of linguistics. Read More
While The Ford Motor Company made news this afternoon with its first quarterly profits in more than four years, Noam Chomsky explains why vague references to 'cost-cutting' and a dependence on government programs are exactly the wrong approach to fixing the industry's deep-seated problems. Read More
Noam Chomsky laments the wide gulf between public policy and public attitudes towards the cost of drugs. Read More
In a functioning democracy, Noam Chomsky claims, people would celebrate on tax day—why then do most Americans view every April 15th as a day of mourning? Read More
Noam Chomsky discusses the limits of civic participation in the U.S., and the extensive efforts that political and business elites have made to keep it that way. Read More
Noam Chomsky explains why “that feeling of helplessness” and “impotence” is the natural response to American democracy. Read More
Obama hasn’t disappointed Chomsky yet--but the linguist didn’t expect much from him anyway. Read More
The West, as aggressors in the region, have responsibilities, but not rights, Chomsky says. Read More
The Israel-Palestine conflict is one of the most serious in the world. Read More
Chomsky talks about the three major world power systems: North America, Europe and Northeast Asia Read More
Chomsky was a guest on Buckley's "Firing Line" in 1969. Read More
About Noam Chomsky
Noam Avram Chomsky was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on December 7, 1928. He attended the University of Pennsylvania where he studied linguistics, mathematics, and philosophy. In 1955, he received his Ph. D. from the University of Pennsylvania, however, most of the research leading to this degree was done at Harvard between 1951 and 1955. Since receiving his Ph. D., Chomsky has taught at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he now holds the Ferrari P. Ward Chair of Modern Language and Linguistics.
Among his many accomplishments, he is most famous for his work on generative grammar, which developed from his interest in modern logic and mathematical foundations. As a result, he applied it to the description of natural languages.
His political tendencies toward socialism and anarchism are a result of what he calls "the radical Jewish community in New York." Since 1965 he has become one of the leading critics of U.S. foreign policy. He published a book of essays called American Power and the New Mandarins which is considered to be one of the most substantial arguments ever against American involvement in Vietnam.