Noam Chomsky’s notion of the human instinct for freedom ties together his many intellectual pursuits, from educating creative, independent citizens to rejecting social and economic hierarchies.
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Could Chomsky have foreseen where his contributions would lead us?
What does it say about the online media ecosystem when the end of a 146-day strike is buried under headlines and posts about Swift’s budding romance with NFL star Travis Kelce?
We humans like to think that our language is original, but we absorb large amounts of it from others and liberally repeat and remix what we hear – just as language AIs do.
Why is there such a great discrepancy between what scholars of education have been telling us and what happens in the classroom?
Journalism has been fodder for politicians’ contempt for generations. A huge percentage of the public doesn’t trust the news media either. That mistrust isn’t a bad thing in a democracy.
Could Google’s undisputed dominance as a search engine come under threat from AI?
America’s public sphere is broken because propaganda has replaced political communication. How did we all become propagandists?
A young reader asks: How are languages formed?
There’s no going back to normal after COVID-19, partly because our pre-pandemic world was anything but normal.
Americans can survive a second Trump term if they resurrect a language of critique and possibility that draws from history and shields the U.S. from authoritarianism.
Research on how children learn show we develop language skills by recycling other parts of our minds.
Public officials are now in the spotlight: Does the public view them as professionals, bound by duty, or as elites who invoke ideals while pursuing their own agendas?
Some on the left view sport as a distraction. But life is a struggle. And there shouldn’t be anything wrong with finding something to celebrate.
The story of the Waco siege is a story of how the media and the government can work in concert to shape a narrative and dehumanize victims.
LSD is far safer than alcohol or tobacco, so why don’t drug laws reflect it?
New research gives weight to Noam Chomsky’s idea of a universal language ability.
A revolution in the tools and techniques developmental psychologists use to investigate kids’ knowledge and capabilities is rewriting what we know about how and when children understand their world.
When we ditched high-school Latin we lost a great intellectual training. Here’s how to get it back without resorting to a dead language.
Consensual same-sex conduct is a crime in 38 African countries. The media in those countries are very much in cahoots with their rulers. But they’re getting their comeuppance from Twitter.
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