My own feeling is that one should refuse to participate in any activity that implements American aggression - thus tax refusal, draft refusal, avoidance of work that can be used by the agencies of militarism and repression, all seem to me essential. Noam Chomsky activityagencyaggression share on social
Chemistry, until my childhood, not that long ago, was regarded as a calculating device. Because you couldn't reduce to physics. So it's just some way of calculating the result of experiments. The Bohr atom was treated that way. Noam Chomsky agoatombohr share on social
My proposal happens to be very mainstream. Noam Chomsky mainstreamproposal Change image and share on social
If you could take a subway from the suburbs in Boston, where I live, to downtown in 10 minutes, that improves your life over sitting in a traffic jam. People should see that. Noam Chomsky bostondowntownimprove Change image and share on social
The American claim that the bombing of North Vietnam was directed against military targets does not withstand direct investigation. Noam Chomsky americanbombclaim Change image and share on social
Some may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of innocence, innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Now that's so deep in history that there's no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist. Noam Chomsky americananglobring share on social
John Lewis Gaddis is not only the favorite historian of the Reagan administration, but he's regarded as the dean of Cold War scholarship, the leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale. Noam Chomsky administrationamericancold share on social
When I was a college student and I got interested in linguistics the concern among students was, this is a lot of fun, but after we have done a structural analysis of every language in the world what's left? It was assumed there were basically no puzzles. Noam Chomsky analysisassumebasically share on social
Withdrawal of American troops must be a unilateral act, as the invasion of Vietnam by the American government was a unilateral act in the first place. Noam Chomsky actamericangovernment Change image and share on social
The government argues that First Amendment rights are outweighed by the need to prosecute those who transmit classified information and documents. Noam Chomsky amendmentargueclassify Change image and share on social
