Professor Noam Chomsky FBA

Professor Noam Chomsky’s work over the past 60 years has profoundly changed the way we think about language. In this video he talks about his reflections on a lifetime of linguistics research and as one of the leading thinkers of our time.

Noam Chomsky, Marina Warner, AC Grayling, John Kay and Baroness Kennedy of the Shaws answer the questions: What is well-being? How can governments increase well-being?

Noam Chomsky had two giant careers: one in the science of language, another in the rough and tumble of anti-war politics, beckoning the question is it one Chomsky or two?

Originally published in the New York Review of Books, Chomsky’s essay eviscerated the “hypocritical moralism of the past” (such as when Woodrow Wilson set out to teach Latin Americans “the art of good government”) and exposed the shameful policies in Vietnam and the role of intellectuals in justifying it.

In wide-ranging discussions with David Barsamian, his longtime interlocutor, Noam Chomsky asks us to consider “the world we are leaving to our grandchildren”: one imperiled by climate change and the growing potential for nuclear war. If the current system is incapable of dealing with these threats, he argues, it’s up to us to radically change it.

Wide-ranging interviews on war, power, and politics with Noam Chomsky, the world's leading critic of US foreign policy. This volume offers readers a concise and accessible introduction to the ideas of Noam Chomsky, described by the New York Times as “arguably the most important intellectual alive.”

In his first major book on the subject of income inequality, Noam Chomsky skewers the fundamental tenets of neoliberalism and casts a clear, cold, patient eye on the economic facts of life. What are the ten principles of concentration of wealth and power at work in America today?