Noam Chomsky poses in his office at MIT.(Ulf Andersen/Getty Images) At the age of 87, and with his seminal work 'Syntactic Structures' about to turn 60, Noam Chomsky is still thinking about ...

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 ...

Noam Chomsky turns eighty-four today, more than a half century after he exploded onto the scene of linguistics, in in the late nineteen-fifties, as a young professor at M.I.T. His career began perhaps ...

Social media was in disarray for a few confusing hours as news reports of Noam Chomsky’s death floated in the liminal space between confirmation and debunking. Social media was in disarray for a few ...

At the age of 86, Noam Chomsky remains as active as ever in his work as a world-renowned political dissident and pioneering linguist. He has also opened a new chapter in his life, recently celebrating ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American In 1990, after traveling to Cambridge to ...

Noam Chomsky, professor of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and radical critic of American foreign policy, has endorsed the presumptive Democratic Party candidate for ...

Though Noam Chomsky has made his name as arguably the foremost political dissident of the last half a century, his intellectual legacy is firstly as a linguist. At the age of 90, he continues to talk ...

Academic and author Noam Chomsky is a creative but very structural thinker, stringing ideas together like dominoes. One thought progresses to the next, carefully placed with a logic and precision born ...

There are determining events, especially when we’re young and formulating our sense of the world: Times when we learn how to take ourselves, where to stand, how to move forward in a fresh way. For me, ...