There's an interesting book about that called The Third Reich and the Ivory Tower, written by Stephen H. Norwood. It has a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I suspect most likely that more Nazis came to America. I was a student at Harvard during the early 1950s. There was… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
UG [universal grammar] may be regarded as a characterization of the genetically determined language faculty. One may think of thisfaculty as a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The corporations plainly want academic scholarship to create a web of mystification that will avoid any public awareness of the way in… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I don't really see what can be said about the role of faculty members, or universities, beyond the truisms voiced earlier, and… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Individuals in a university - students, faculty, staff - can choose to become politically engaged, and a free university should foster a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
No one seriously doubts that if Piraha children are brought up in Boston they'll be speaking Boston English, that is, that the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I think that in order to achieve progress in the study of language and human cognitive faculties in general it is necessary… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The costs of the Bush-Obama wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are now estimated to run as high as $4.4 trillion - a major victory… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If you believe in democracy, why shouldn't you know what the government is doing? — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It’s a shameful moment for U.S. media when it insists on being subservient to the grotesque propaganda agencies of a violent, aggressive state. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There are questions as to whether it should even exist. Who should corporations be responsive to, the management of a corporation? Theoretically they are… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be - protect themselves. That's why you have state secret laws.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I don't join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn't have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The first thing you ought to do is verify what I present. Just because I say it doesn't make it true. So check it… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I wrote an article about the marine landing [in Haiti] right away, but barely mentioned the oil, because my article would come out two… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
American society is now remarkably atomized. Political organizations have collapsed. In fact, it seems like even bowling leagues are collapsing. The left has a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Discovery is the ability to be puzzled by simple things. Noam Chomsky — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There's an interesting book about that called The Third Reich and the Ivory Tower, written by Stephen H. Norwood. It has a long discussion… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
This is class war on an international scale, and power is in the hands of those who control the international economic system. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image