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born 1928, Philadelphia, USA
The propaganda model, the responsibility of intellectuals, and libertarian socialism - a lifelong case that illegitimate power must justify itself or be dismantled.
Start learning Noam →Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman’s account of how the mass media in a free society manufacture public consent - not by censorship or force, but through five structural ‘filters’ (ownership, advertising, sourcing, flak, an…
Chomsky’s 1967 essay on the moral duty of the privileged: because intellectuals enjoy freedom, training, and access to information that most people lack, it is their responsibility to speak the truth and to expose the l…
Chomsky’s libertarian socialism (or anarcho-syndicalism): the claim that no structure of authority is legitimate simply because it exists - each one, from the state to the workplace, bears the burden of proving itself j…
Chomsky’s other revolution: that the human capacity for language is innate (universal grammar), the clearest proof that creativity is native to the mind - and his claim that this creative human nature is the very ground…
The 1971 television debate in which Chomsky and Michel Foucault clashed over the deepest question in politics: is there a real human nature that can ground a universal ideal of justice to fight for (Chomsky), or are ‘hu…
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