Author
Noam Chomsky
Linguist, philosopher and political critic
Noam Chomsky reshaped linguistics in his thirties with Syntactic Structures, arguing that the capacity for grammar is built into the human mind rather than learned from scratch. That work founded generative linguistics and helped establish cognitive science as a field.
He has spent the decades since as one of the most persistent critics of American foreign policy and of how mass media manufactures consent for it. He has written more than 150 books, is among the most cited living authors, and remains a laureate professor at the University of Arizona and institute professor emeritus at MIT.
