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Noam Chomsky

Noam Chomsky is not a website, but since you’re reading this on a website (probably), you’ll want to go to virtual place to learn more. Noam Chomsky is probably the guy who I would consider the smartest guy alive currently. An M.I.T. linguistics professor by trade, a political commentator and activist by passion, Noam Chomsky’s various writings and talks can be sampled at chomsky.info, which is arguably the official site to go to for all things Chomsky.

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[...] JimBlog.net Mental Space of a Husband, Father, Teacher, Friend « Independent Media Sorry for the Snafu! » Noam Chomsky avoids appearances on the usual TV talk shows because they don’t allow for normal conversation, much less the kind of depth required to treat the topics he is usually asked to comment on. The reason he avoids it is because of what he calls the “tyranny of concision.” [...]

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