Chomsky.info : The Noam Chomsky Website. Noam Chomsky. You’re viewing a beta release of the Guardian’s responsive website. We’d love to hear your feedback Opt-out and return to our current site Noam Chomsky Noam Chomsky is an emeritus professor of linguistics at MIT and a prolific critic of American politics and foreign policy How to destroy the future Noam Chomsky: From the Cuban missile crisis to a fossil fuels frenzy, the US is intent on winning the race to disaster 1226 comments Noam Chomsky: violence and dignity – reflections on the Middle East - video highlights Edited excerpts from a lecture by the academic and political theorist Noam Chomsky 64 comments US control is diminishing, but it still thinks it owns the world Noam Chomsky for TomDispatch: The United States has long assumed the right to use violence to achieve its aims, but its capacity to implement those policies is declining1184 comments Cuban missile crisis: how the US played Russian roulette with nuclear war Noam Chomsky: President Kennedy is often lauded for managing the crisis.
Scholarship and Politics - The Case of Noam Chomsky. The views I have been peddling to various audiences (without notable success) are: (1) The academy is a world of its own, complete with rules, protocols, systems of evaluation, recognized achievements, agreed-on goals, a roster of heroes and a list of tasks yet to be done. (2) Academic work proceeds within the confines of that world, within, that is, a professional, not a public, space, although its performance may be, and often is, public. Accordingly, (3) academic work is only tangentially, not essentially, political; politics may attend the formation of academic units and the selection of academic personnel, but political concerns and pressures have no place in the unfolding of academic argument, except as objects of its distinctive forms of attention.
Chomsky gave three lectures under the general title “What Kind of Creatures are We?” The answer given in the first lecture — “What is Language?” In his second lecture (“What Can We Understand?”) Noam Chomsky: Money Grubbing Hypocrite? Noam Chomsky, Closet Capitalist. To read more articles about Chomsky archived at this site, click here. Hoover Digest By Peter Schweizer Posted on Thursday, September 28, 2006 One of the most persistent themes in Noam Chomsky’s work has been class warfare. But trusts can’t be all bad. Chomsky favors the estate tax and massive income redistribution—just not the redistribution of his income. When I challenged Chomsky about his trust, he suddenly started to sound very bourgeois: “I don’t apologize for putting aside money for my children and grandchildren,” he wrote in one e-mail.
Indeed, Chomsky is rich precisely because he has been such an enormously successful capitalist. Chomsky’s business works something like this. Can’t go and hear him in person? But books are Chomsky’s mainstay, and on the international market he has become a publishing phenomenon. Chomsky’s marketing efforts shortly after September 11 give new meaning to the term war profiteer. He also cashed in by producing another instant book.