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...definitive moment of Noam Chomsky??s life came when he was only six years old. One day after class, one of Chomsky??s classmates threatened to beat up a defenseless fat kid in the schoolyard with the help of his older brother. Chomsky describes his reaction to the scene in the documentary Manufacturing Consent: “I remember going up to stand next to him. I did for a while, but then I got scared and went away. I was very much ashamed of it afterwards. I felt—I’ll never...
...years—that America’s foreign policy, from Vietnam to Iraq, has been motivated by a thirst to expand its empire. As usual, he bolsters his claims with an unearthly number of facts and footnotes, and the logic of his arguments seems all but irrefutable. Chomsky??s relentless criticism of U.S. foreign policy (along with his groundbreaking work as a linguist) has earned him The New York Times’ praise as “arguably the most important intellectual alive...
...Chomsky??s amazing ability to reason that leads me to believe that he has the power to make the Left make sense—and perhaps, to single-handedly push America in a more progressive direction...
...Chomsky??s most recent blunder came on his Oct. 28 lecture in Cuba. With Cuban President Fidel Castro in the audience, Chomsky argued that, after the failed effort in Iraq, Bush and his cronies would have to “manufacture” another enemy in order to be re-elected...
Since arriving at Harvard, he has worked with students as a teaching fellow in Government 20, “Introduction to Comparative Politics” and other College government courses, receiving the Derek Bok Award for Teaching Excellence. This semester, he is the head TF for Noam Chomsky??s “Politics, Justice, and Social Change,” a course offered jointly between the Kennedy School...