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It’s also easy to criticize his guest lecturers, homogeneously left-wing types who have become the hallmark of Palmer’s classes. In 1529, he labels them “relevant practitioners” of personal choice. One is Noam Chomsky, on both the Religion 1528 and 1529 syllabi, who will (shockingly) not be speaking about linguistics, in which he holds his PhD. Palmer also selected Howard D. Zinn as a lecturer, whose People’s History of the United States takes great care to omit any modicum of praise for Western civilization, when...
Palmer’s class, which has hosted such well-known figures as former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich and MIT professor Noam Chomsky, has been featured in The New York Times and The Christian Science Monitor but has also been accused of not providing a balanced view on political issues...
What do leftist linguist NOAM CHOMSKY and Left Coast lovely DREW BARRYMORE have in common? (Hint: it's not tattoos.) Both cultural notables took home a prize from the United Nations last week. After receiving an award from the U.N.'s Society of Writers and Artists, Chomsky spoke on U.S. imperialism and Iraq. When Barrymore was named the first "Friend of the U.N." by Artists for the U.N. (yes, two artists' groups--this is the U.N.), she said, "To be philanthropic is weirdly not as easy as you want it to be." Unlike, say, fighting bad guys while in high...
Global transformers this spring include, according to Palmer’s description, “renowned historian Howard Zinn,” who is mostly renowned for his socialist screed A People’s History of the United States. MIT professor Noam Chomsky, euphemistically described by Palmer as a “social critic,” compared President Bush’s counter-terrorism efforts to Nazism. Among other idealist guests is “Alfie Kohn, the nation’s leading critic of ‘standardized testing as ethnic cleansing...
...college-age campaign volunteers in New Hampshire, and if you simply decide which group of them you like best--voila, there's your candidate. As a service guide, we have figured out the volunteers' lifestyles, as defined by where they shop (Banana Republic or Salvation Army?), what they read (Noam Chomsky or the New Republic?) and what music they listen to (edgy rapper 50 Cent or sensitive Britpoppers Coldplay...