People | Noam Chomsky

2010-03-11: Headlines

AllAfrica.com: Zimbabwe: Unpacking Media-NGO Activism 2010-03-11
Even Noam Chomsky, Edward Herman, Howard Zinn, Holly Sklar, Alex Cockburn, John Stockwell or John Pilger do not have that entitlement. No one does.
LA Weekly: Movie Reviews: Children of Invention, Mother, The Art of the Steal 2010-03-11
AMERICAN RADICAL: THE TRIALS OF NORMAN FINKELSTEIN Noam Chomsky reveres him. Leon Wieseltier hates him. Alan Dershowitz called him an anti-Semite ...
Eye Weekly: Encirclement: Neo-Liberalism Ensnares Democracy 2010-03-11
The headliner is surely Noam Chomsky, although his familiar rhetoric proves less interesting than the thoughts of non-celebrity doomsayers like ...
VUE Weekly: Well, well, well: Wakefield questions 2010-03-11
As Noam Chomsky would say, it takes effort not to see what's happening. This is not conspiracy theory. Wakefield has been singled out for the purpose ...

2010-03-10: Headlines

Scoop.co.nz: Zahir Ebrahim: Anatomy of Conspiracy Theory 2010-03-10
Noam Chomsky had once observed an insightful nature of such “conspiracies”, as the open shared natural goals stemming from the very nature of its definiti ...
Isthmus Daily Page: Blaska's Blog flunks the school for Leftists 2010-03-10
Someone who has yet to die: Noam Chomsky in "The Role of the Radical Intellectual" is coming to State Street. Yes, Noam Chomsky, the fellow who said "If ...
UW Badger Herald: Engaging deniers does little to advance truth 2010-03-10
Noam Chomsky had this to say about the plausibility of conspiracy theories about US government involvement in events like the JFK assassination or 9/11 ...
New York Times: Questions Answered: Invented Languages 2010-03-10
Thanks to people like Noam Chomsky, Steven Pinker, and other less-famous linguists, we now know an awful lot about how humans acquire and propagate language ...
The Province: Guest column: Think twice about these so-called role models 2010-03-10
... personalities and international impact of 21 major thinkers — Henrik Ibsen, Lillian Hellman, Norman Mailer and Noam Chomsky are others who come under ...
Iranian: It is time to act 2010-03-10
I am currently going through 'Perilous Power' a book by Noam Chomsky and Gilbert Achcar. On page 57 Chomsky refers to an Asian Energy Security Grid forming ...
Tufts Daily: McCarthyite Zionism 2010-03-10
... has taught at Rutgers, DePaul and New York University and has been praised by Jewish and non-Jewish scholars such as Avi Shlaim and Noam Chomsky.

2010-03-09: Headlines

Los Angeles Times: Big Think: Noam Chomksy shares his thoughts on the meaning of love 2010-03-09
Perusing the site this morning, I watched this sincere short video with MIT professor Noam Chomsky -- probably America's single most important intellectual ...
Democracy Now: Cambridge, MA 2010-03-09
... and MIT professor of Linguistics and Philosophy Noam Chomsky, author of Hegemony or Survival and the forthcoming book, Hopes and Prospect ...
Escambray: Wives of The Cuban Five Remembered in The USA 2010-03-09
They include Noam Chomsky, Michael Parenti, Mayor of Richmond city Gayle McLaughlin, former Congress member Esteban Torres and actor Danny Glover ...
Wired News: Justices to Weigh Religion, Speech Rights in Funeral Flap 2010-03-09
As Noam Chomsky is quoted as saying, “If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.
Cuban News Agency: US Personalities Ask Washington to Grant Visas to Wives of Cuban 2010-03-09
The signatories of the letter include linguist, philosopher, political analyst and activist Noam Chomsky; Marxist intellectual and historian Michael Parenti ...
The Daily Princetonian: Chomsky discusses the American 'culture of imperialism' 2010-03-09
Much of American military policy is terrorism, 81-year-old linguist and cultural critic Noam Chomsky argued before a crowd of roughly 450 ...
Indiana University: Literary critic WJT Mitchell to speak at next Patten Foundation lecture 2010-03-09
Past lecturers have included Oscar Arias, Jorge Luis Borges, Noam Chomsky, Natalie Zemon Davis, Umberto Eco, Julian S. Huxley, Evelyn Fox Keller ...
Cuba Headlines: Chomsky: Cuba's Internationalism is dramatic 2010-03-09
Renowned American historian and writer Noam Chomsky highlighted today the Cuban medical aid to Haiti and the "dramatic internationalism" of the island ...

About Chomsky

Bangkok Post: 'Resonant and unwavering' 2008-07-14

Noam Chomsky talks to the 'Bangkok Post' about the Vietnam War, Burma and the future of the human race

Bangkok Post

Story by STUART ALAN BECKER

He opposed the Vietnam War long before it was fashionable to do so. He revolutionised the field of linguistics and helped spark the cognitive revolution in psychology. He changed the way scientists approach the study of the human mind.

His "Chomsky Hierarchy" is taught in basic computer science because it offers insight into the nature of how languages are structured. His theories of Generative and Universal Grammar indicate that the human mind comes hard-wired with default settings that enable infants to quickly learn any language spoken around them.

When the US dropped the atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, Chomsky walked off into the woods to be alone and contemplate what he later called "one of the most unspeakable crimes in history".

For the last 50 years Avram Noam Chomsky, now in his 80th year, has been a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was voted No. 1 in the 2005 Global Intellectuals Poll, a list of the 100 most important living public intellectuals, compiled in November, 2005 by Prospect Magazine of the UK and Foreign Policy of the US on the basis of a readers' ballot consisting of more than 20,000 votes. �� [more]