Noam Chomsky is Institute Professor (emeritus) in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Laureate Professor of Linguistics and Agnese Nelms Haury Chair in the Program in Environment and Social Justice at the University of Arizona. Considered the founder of modern linguistics, Prof. Chomsky’s work is widely credited with having revolutionized the field of modern linguistics. Additionally, he is one of the most cited scholars in modern history, having written over 100 books. He has received numerous awards, including the Kyoto Prize in Basic Sciences, the Helmholtz Medal, and the Ben Franklin Medal in Computer and Cognitive Science. Prof. Chomsky remains one of the most vocal and outspoken activists and public intellectuals in the United States. A fierce critic of US foreign policy, he has written many books covering US imperialism, foreign policy, and anarchism. His books include Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media, with Edward S. Herman (Pantheon, 1988); Rogue States: The Rule of Force in World Affairs (South End Press, 2000); Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky (The New Press, 2002); Hegemony or Survival: America’s Quest for Global Dominance (Metropolitan Books, 2003); The Chomsky-Foucault Debate: On Human Nature, with Michel Foucault (The New Press, 2006); On Anarchism (The New Press, 2013); Gaza in Crisis: Reflections on the US-Israeli War Against the Palestinians, with Ilan Pappé (Haymarket Books, 2013); On Palestine, with Ilan Pappé (Haymarket Books, 2015); Who Rules the World? (Metropolitan Books, 2016); and On Western Terrorism: From Hiroshima to Drone Warfare, with Andre Vltchek (Pluto Press, 2017).
Christopher Helali is a graduate student in the MALS program with a concentration in Cultural Studies at Dartmouth College.
In the Spring of 2013, while I was a graduate student at Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology and Harvard Divinity School, I reached out to Prof. Noam Chomsky via email to request an interview. He happily accepted. On March 12th, 2013, I entered his office at MIT and sat down with him for nearly an hour. A large photo of
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