MIT professor Noam Chomsky has long been one of the nation’s most implacable critics of US foreign policy and domestic inequity, as well as its highly-concentrated mass media.
Philip Smith, http://www.drcnet.org
February 14, 2002
Lauded by the New York Review of Books as “America’s leading radical intellectual,” Chomsky has authored dozens of books on US policy in the Middle East, Latin America, the former Yugoslavia and East Timor, among others, as well as “Manufacturing Consent,” a scathing critique of propagandistic corporate media.
A proud anarchist — he defines anarchism as “a tendency in the history of human thought and action which seeks to identify coercive, authoritarian, and hierarchic structures of all kinds and to challenge their legitimacy, and if they cannot justify their legitimacy, which is quite commonly the case, to work to undermine them and expand the scope of freedom” — Chomsky is a legendary American political dissident whose campus appearances regularly bring out thousands of students. We spoke with the distinguished linguist and essayist from his office at MIT.
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