Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky
Avram Noam Chomskyis an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, logician, social critic, and political activist. Sometimes described as "the father of modern linguistics", Chomsky is also a major figure in analytic philosophy, and one of the founders of the field of cognitive science. He has spent more than half a century at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he is Institute Professor Emeritus, and is the author of over 100 books on topics such as linguistics, war, politics, and...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTeacher
Date of Birth7 December 1928
CityPhiladelphia, PA
CountryUnited States of America
On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.
Occasionally the conflict between 'what we stand for' and 'what we do' has been forthrightly addressed.
It makes sense for Japan to pursue a more independent role in the world, following Latin America and others in freeing itself from U.S. domination.
It doesn't take long to become aware of the presence of the CIA in Laos.
Clinton himself acted in ways which increased the threat of terror.
By 1960, the South Africans knew that they were becoming a pariah state.
Obama has succeeded in descending even below George W. Bush in approval in the Arab world. It's minuscule, few percent.
In the United States, we can do almost anything we want. It's not like Egypt, where you're going to get murdered by the security forces.
The Vietnamese see their history as an unending series of struggles of resistance to aggression, by the Chinese, the Mongols, the Japanese, the French, and now the Americans.
There's a lot of fuss on the Left about election irregularities, like, you know, the voting machines were tampered with, they didn't count the votes right, and so on. That's all accurate and of some importance, but of far more importance is the fact that elections just don't take place, not in any meaningful sense of the term 'election.'
The effort to try to present the Social Security program as if it's a major problem, that's just a hidden way of trying to undermine and destroy it.
People who criticize power in the Jewish community are regarded the way Ahab treated Elijah: You're a traitor.
No matter what engineering field you're in, you learn the same basic science and mathematics. And then maybe you learn a little bit about how to apply it.
I haven't read Horowitz. I didn't used to read him when he was a Stalinist, and I don't read him today.