At least he’s used to it by now. Chomsky, who at 87 is still cranking out books at an astonishing clip (he’s written more than a hundred, and several in just the past year), has a decades-long ...

A team of neuroscientists has found new support for MIT linguist Noam Chomsky's decades-old theory that we possess an "internal grammar" that allows us to comprehend even nonsensical phrases.

A glance at the current issue of Prospect: A challenge to ChomskyThe Pirahã are an “ordinary sort of folk,” says Philip Oltermann, a contributor to the British magazine. “They enjoy ...

Noam Chomsky, a professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is giving a series of open lectures on linguistic theory at UCLA from Monday through Thursday. Monday, July 7, 2025 ...

Chomsky has written more than one hundred books, notably The Logical Structure of Linguistic Theory, Syntactic Structures, Aspects of a Theory of Syntax and Language and Mind, and is one of the ...

Chomsky skewers a range of these technocrats in this essay, people who in theory are “intellectuals,” from Walter Robinson through Walt Rostow and Kissinger, among many others, each of whom ...

Chomsky, N (1965) Aspects of the Theory of Syntax, Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press Chomsky, N (1979) Language and Responsibility, Hassocks: Harvester Press.

Chomsky’s scientific work is incomprehensible because it doesn’t make sense. ... He doesn’t work with scientists in neighbouring fields. He doesn’t develop a theory and then stick with it, as Galileo ...

News about Noam Chomsky, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

It is now fifty years since Noam Chomsky published his celebrated article, 'The Responsibility of Intellectuals'.* Few other writings had a greater impact on the turbulent political atmosphere on US ...