Noam Chomsky and Bard College president had financial dealings with Jeffrey Epstein
The MIT linguist says the late sex offender helped on a ‘technical matter’ related to his and his late wife’s finances
November 2021
Glasgow University retreats over ‘antisemitic’ label for journal article
Preface apology for paper on pro-Israel advocacy removed after free speech petition involving Noam Chomsky
January 2021
Book of the day
Everything Must Change! review – the left's big beasts tackle a post-pandemic future
Conversations featuring the likes of Noam Chomsky, Brian Eno and Slavoj Žižek imagine a more communal world after Covid
November 2020
Yanis Varoufakis calls for Black Friday boycott of Amazon
Economist takes on retail giant before planned day of international protests
July 2020
Anti-Trump British journalist quits New York Magazine in 'woke' row
The spectre of censorship and intolerance stalks today’s left
Nick Cohen
May 2020
Noam Chomsky: Trump is culpable in deaths of Americans - video
Trump is culpable in deaths of Americans, says Noam Chomsky
September 2019
Reasons we cannot agree on what’s true
Letters:John Richardson talks about the power of big businesses to promulgate false information, while Mark Richardson says complex explanations for events end up being doubted
April 2019
Climate activists and police tussle for control of Oxford Circus
Pink boat becomes focus of attention on fifth day of Extinction Rebellion protests
May 2018
The Ashtray by Errol Morris review – revenge against Thomas Kuhn
For the film-maker, Kuhn is ‘The Man Who Denied Reality’, whose relativism opened the door to fake news. The trouble is, he is totally wrong
March 2018
Unsung heroes: portraits of figures who deserve artistic recognition
A new exhibition features oil-on-linen paintings of people who deserve to be heralded more, including Noam Chomsky and scientist Rachel Carson
December 2017
Democracy in Turkey is going on trial
Meghan Markle could shake up monarchy, says Noam Chomsky
May 2017
Labour party’s future lies with Momentum, says Noam Chomsky
The US radical thinker blames the media for Jeremy Corbyn’s unpopularity and says he would vote for him
March 2017
Farage meets Assange in a shameless illiberal alliance
Nick Cohen
The old rules about probity in public life are being shredded at both ends of the political spectrum
January 2017
Science Weekly
Universal grammar: are we born knowing the rules of language? – Science weekly podcast
Do all human languages share a universal grammar? And can science shed light on a schism that’s divided the world of linguistics for over half a century?
October 2016
Left Book Club bids to crowdfund radical reading, with help of Chomsky
Network of reading groups to foster debate about ideas ‘vital for progressive politics in Britain’ – fed by classics and new titles the club will publish
September 2016
Bonfire of the theories: Wolfe battles Chomsky over roots of language
Tom Wolfe’s new book The Kingdom of Speech has started a row that promises to be the literary spat of the season
July 2016
100 best nonfiction books of all time
The 100 best nonfiction books: No 25 – The Uses of Literacy: Aspects of Working-Class Life (1957)
This influential cultural study of postwar Britain offers pertinent truths on mass communication and the interaction between ordinary people and the elites
