Chomsky’s first version of his theory, put forward in the mid-20th century, meshed with two emerging trends in Western intellectual life. First, he posited that the languages people use to communicate ...
Noam Chomsky in New York, 2010 (James Leynse/Corbis Historical/Getty Images) Few American linguists were puzzled when they saw the title of Randy Allen Harris’s book about events in their discipline ...
Chomsky spent decades documenting how governments manufacture consent, and once you pick up on their cunning tactics, you can ...