This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Noam Chomsky’s political views attract so ...

Noam Chomsky, one of the world’s most famous and respected intellectuals, will be 96 years old on Dec. 7, 2024. For more than half a century, multitudes of people have read his works in a variety of ...

Noam Chomsky remains the world's most-cited living scholar with over 300,000 citations. His latest data shows a rising global demand for mental resilience. "The only way to deal with fear is to ...

A critical examination of Noam Chomsky's politics on the basis of whether he can really be considered an Anarcho-syndicalist. Linguistic professor Noam Chomsky of MIT University is a distinguished ...

Noam Chomsky in New York, 2010 (James Leynse/Corbis Historical/Getty Images) Few American linguists were puzzled when they saw the title of Randy Allen Harris’s book about events in their discipline ...

Noam Chomsky's political writings are extremely useful for any understanding of the crimes of US imperialism. But his scientific work, whose political implications Chomsky denies, have been coming ...

New evidence disproves Chomsky’s theory of universal grammar: “The idea that we have brains hardwired with a mental template for learning grammar—famously espoused by Noam Chomsky of the Massachusetts ...

Recently, Chomsky and colleagues (Bolhuis, Tattersal, Chomsky, & Berwick, 2014) published an article entitled How Could Language Have Evolved? The chief irony of the title is that its authors ...

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 ...

If you ever saw Chomsky as a moral paragon, you weren’t paying attention By Ralph Leonard Noam Chomsky has a long-standing reputation for being the conscience of the American left. As Norman ...