2/14/2023 0 Comments The English Teacher Opus Serial![]() He remains a rock-star on college campuses, here and abroad yet he’s still an alien in the places where policy gets made. And yet the man is universally famous and revered in his 89 th year: he’s the scientist who taught us to think of human language as something embedded in our biology, not a social acquisition he’s the humanist who railed against the Vietnam war and other projections of American power, on moral grounds first, ahead of practical considerations. It’s a strange thing about Noam Chomsky: the New York Times calls him ‘arguably’ the most important public thinker alive, though the paper seldom quotes him, or argues with him, and giant pop media stars on network television almost never do. Buckley Jr., meeting Chomsky’s icy anger about the war in Vietnam, in 1969. Remember the famous faltering of the patrician TV host William F. Not that the world quite knows what do with Noam Chomsky’s warnings of disaster in the making. The world in trouble today still beats a path to Noam Chomsky’s door, if only because he’s been forthright for so long about a whirlwind coming. Noam Chomsky for 50 years has been America’s Socrates, our public pest with questions that sting … not the city-square of Athens but a vast global village in pain and now, it seems, in danger. American Socrates: The Life and Mind of Noam Chomsky ![]()
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