I think his ideas and arguments are still worth grappling with as one tries to make sense of this ever stranger world.

Noam Chomsky has lectured and debated in many forums on numerous topics throughout his long career. Neilson Barnard/Getty Images Noam Chomsky, one of the world’s most famous and respected ...

Teaching fewer words to large language models might help them sound more human. By Oliver Whang Lawmakers and Sam Altman, the chief executive of OpenAI, agreed that artificial intelligence should be ...

Noam Chomsky is a professor of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His work in linguistics has earned him the Kyoto Prize and the Helmholtz Medal. He writes and lectures widely ...

Further, language is used by humans in ways no animal can match; if you understand what language is, you comprehend a little bit more about human nature. Chomsky’s first version of his theory, put ...

The Left icon overlooked sexual violence, much like India’s literary and cultural progressives have embraced a man whose rape ...

Noam Chomsky is a professor of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His work in linguistics has earned him the Kyoto Prize and the Helmholtz Medal. He writes and lectures widely ...

Humans are often thought to be the only animals capable of language. But it's difficult to prove a negative like this because we'll never definitively know the subjective interior monologues of other ...

I consistently wish we would get more documentaries that examine the history and construction of languages. Here are just a few great representative examples of the potential this genre has. An ...

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 ...