Noam Chomsky

Noam Chomsky, born in 1928, is an American intellectual, philosopher, linguist, political activist and social critic, sometimes called the father of modern linguistics and a founder of the field of cognitive science. He is a laureate professor of linguistics at the University of Arizona and an institute professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has written more than 150 books on linguistics, war and politics, and since the 1960s has been a prominent critic of United States foreign policy. His 2012 book Occupy is a short study of the Occupy movement.