![]() ![]() Chomsky, who is often accused by critics of refusing to condemn any anti-Western government, unhesitatingly denounced Vladimir Putin’s “criminal aggression”.īut he added: “Why did he do it? There are two ways of looking at this question. In common with many Jews, Chomsky has a family connection to the region: his father was born in present-day Ukraine and emigrated to the US in 1913 to avoid serving in the tsarist army his mother was born in Belarus. ![]() He is a walking advertisement for Dylan Thomas’s injunction – “Do not go gentle into that good night” – or for what Chomsky calls “the bicycle theory: if you keep going fast, you don’t fall off”. But in an era of permanent crisis, he retains the moral fervour of a young radical – more preoccupied with the world’s mortality than his own. Due to the climate crisis and the threat of nuclear war, Chomsky told me, “we’re approaching the most dangerous point in human history… We are now facing the prospect of destruction of organised human life on Earth.”Īt the age of 93, as perhaps the world’s most cited living scholar, Chomsky could be forgiven for retreating from the public sphere. “I haven’t changed my opinion since, it’s just gotten worse,” he sardonically remarked. It charted the advance of the “grim cloud of fascism” across the world. “The first article that I wrote for the elementary school newspaper was on the fall of Barcelona ,” Chomsky recalled when we spoke recently via video call. It was as a ten-year-old that Noam Chomsky first confronted the perils of foreign aggression. ![]()
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