# Noam Chomsky

> He rewired how we think about language itself — arguing grammar lives in the brain, not the environment — then spent sixty years dismantling U.S. foreign policy with the same forensic precision.

*American linguist and activist (born 1928)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Academic ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Academics
- **Country:** United States
- **Born:** 1928-12-07
- **Status:** living
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Born to Ashkenazi Jewish immigrants in Philadelphia in 1928, Chomsky found anarchist literature in New York bookstores as a teenager and studied at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1955 he earned his doctorate at Harvard and joined MIT; two years later Syntactic Structures landed like a depth charge, introducing transformational grammar and helping kill off behaviorist linguistics. He built universal grammar theory, the Chomsky hierarchy, the minimalist program — work that made him among the most cited living authors and a founder of cognitive science. In 1967 his essay "The Responsibility of Intellectuals" turned him into a lightning rod on the Left; he was arrested for anti-Vietnam activism, landed on Nixon's enemies list, and later co-wrote Manufacturing Consent to decode how media bends reality. His defense of free speech for Holocaust deniers sparked the Faurisson affair; his takes on Cambodia and Bosnia drew fire from multiple sides. Now a laureate professor at Arizona after decades at MIT, he remains the American empire's most persistent anatomist — and a fixture of anti-capitalist, anti-Zionist thought worldwide.

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