Noam Chomsky

Are Sheryl Sandberg and Nate Silver America's greatest thinkers?

2013-03-13 12:29:00

Who are the great thinkers in the debate about our world and its future? The U.K.-based magazine Prospect invites you to answer that question, and it has nominated 65 public intellectuals for you to choose from. There are plenty of Americans on the list...

A tale of two Hugos: Hugo Chavez and the 'Les Miserables' effect

2013-03-07 10:53:00

Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan president who died Tuesday, was an avid reader.� "Read, read, read, read," he said in a speech in 2009. "That should be our slogan every day." It turns out that his political position might be attributed (at least in part) to...

'Gangnam Style' sets world record: Gallops to 1 billion video views

2012-12-21 11:05:00

Psy stands for "psycho", but today it should stand for "psyched"! On Thursday morning, "Gangnam Style" hit 1 billion views on YouTube -- becoming the first video ever to hit that milestone. To celebrate, YouTube has a little dancing Psy doing horsey...

The long hike from an Iranian prison to home

2012-09-12 00:00:00

Two years ago, Californian and citizen of the world Sarah Shourd was released from prison in Iran after an intense international campaign to free her. A bit more than a year later, that effort, including pressure from the State Department, Oman (the...

George A. Miller dies at 92; pioneer of cognitive psychology

2012-08-06 00:00:00

George A. Miller, an iconoclastic psychologist who played a crucial role in shifting his field from the study of behaviors to the direct examination of thought processes, died July 22 at his home in Plainsboro, N.J. He was 92 and died of complications...

Julian Assange of WikiLeaks gets extradition letter from British police

2012-06-28 16:40:30

Remembering a young Syrian filmmaker killed in Homs

2012-06-03 16:40:36

Christopher Hitchens dies at 62; engaging, enraging author and essayist

2011-12-15 21:57:00

Christopher Hitchens, the engaging and enraging British-American author and essayist whose polemical writings on religion, politics, war and other provocations established him as one of his generation's most robust public intellectuals, has died. He was...

At Sundance, a science documentary revives language questions

2011-01-22 00:00:00

Among the offerings at this year's Sundance Film Festival is a documentary about a trailblazing chimpanzee named Nim Chimpsky who played a key role in the scientific debate over what it means to be human. The James Marsh film, "Project Nim," explores the...

NPR needs a backbone

2011-03-17 00:00:00

Oh, NPR, won't you please state your game? Are you liberal? Are you neutral? Are your employees secret socialists? Do their screensavers feature slideshows of Noam Chomsky? Do your office Christmas parties serve only free-range eggnog? Do your parking...

Summer reading: History

2011-05-22 00:00:00

Absolute Monarchs A History of the Papacy John Julius Norwich Random House: $30 The respected historian of the Byzantine Empire and Venice now turns to one of the oldest institutions on Earth and those who have worn the mitred hat during its 2,000-...

'Gossip Girl' recap: The great frenemy fake-out

2010-09-28 16:35:49

In October 2009, Chomsky compared the right-wing media to Nazis. See the clip here.

2011-11-15 19:00:27

U.S. linguist and political activist Noam Chomsky discusses the global economic crisis, U.S. military intervention in the Middle East and South Asia and the election of Barack Obama in a lecture called "Crisis & Hope: Theirs and Ours" at Riverside Church in New York City.

2009-06-12 00:00:00