Chomsky has often suffered fools, knaves, and criminals too lightly. Epstein was one of them. But that doesn’t mean Chomsky ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Many people feel comforted and understood by animals. In that sense, they communicate with them. What they can't do, however, is talk with an animal. Whereas all animals, ourselves included, ...