This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Noam Chomsky’s political views attract so ...

The idea that we have brains hardwired with a mental template for learning grammar—famously espoused by Noam Chomsky of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology—has dominated linguistics for almost ...

FEW disciplines are so strongly associated with a single figure: Einstein in physics and Freud in psychology, perhaps. But Noam Chomsky is the man who revolutionised linguistics. Since he wrote ...

On Aug. 8, 2016, in the run-up to the presidential election, The New York Times published an article by its media columnist Jim Rutenberg calling on reporters to “to throw out the textbook of American ...

In a Democracy Now! special, we spend the hour with Noam Chomsky, the world-renowned political dissident, linguist, author and institute professor emeritus at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, ...

Many people feel comforted and understood by animals. In that sense, they communicate with them. What they can't do, however, is talk with an animal. Whereas all animals, ourselves included, ...

Who's afraid? Me. But let’s press on anyway. Noam Chomsky is a polarizing figure in modern intellectual life. Best known in popular discourse for his radical critique of U.S. foreign policy, he has ...