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Noam Chomsky at 96: The linguist, educator, philosopher and public thinker has had a massive intellectual and moral influence

  • Written by: Robert F. Barsky, Professor of Humanities and Professor of Law, Vanderbilt University
imageNoam 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 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 languages, and...

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