Noam Chomsky has passed away.
He was not only an important linguist at MIT, he was an important left intellectual who used journalism to critique American power. He reminded us all that the first nation convicted by the UN of terrorism was the United States, for bombing Nicaragua.
He was a man who talked like he was reading from a book, complete with references. A top intellectual. And, of course, rarely seen on TV, or taken seriously as an interlocutor by the political class, including both Republican and Democrats. He was an inconvenience to the system, and so they ignored him.
But we remember him.
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