The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control - "indoctrination," we might say - exercised through the mass media.

The couple had two daughters Aviva (b. True there are lots of other things I don't understand: the articles in the current issues of math and physics journals for example. Admittedly that may be my own limitation.

He has been described as a prominent cultural figure and he was voted the "world's top public intellectual" in a 2005 poll. Avram Noam Chomsky (/ˈnoʊm ˈtʃɒmski/; born December 7 1928) is an American linguist philosophercognitive scientist logicianhistorian political critic and activist. After the publication of his first books on linguistics Chomsky became a prominent critic of the Vietnam War and since then has continued to publish books of political criticism.