Interview with Noam Chomsky on 'The F Files'

Noam is the Institute Professor Emeritus of linguistics at the Massachusettes Institute of Technology. He is credited with the creation of the theory of generative grammer, considered to be one of the most significant contributions to the field of theoretical linguistics made in the 20th century. Beginning with his critique of the Vietnam War in the 1960's, Chomsky has become more widely known-especially internationally-for his media criticism and radical politics than for his linguistic theories. He is generally considered to be a key intellectual figure within the left wing of United States politics. According to the Arts and Humanities Index, between 1980 and 1992 Chomsky was cited as a source more often than any other living scholar, and the eighth most cited scholar overall. Chomsky is widely known for his political activism, and for his criticism of the foreign policy of the United States and other governments. He describes himself as a libertarian socialist and a sympathizer of anarcho-syndicalism (he is a member of the (IWW).His latest book is called Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance.