An Hour With: Noam Chomsky

The Brian Lehrer Show | Sep 18, 2013

This segment originally aired live on September 18, 2013. An edited version was included in a best-of episode of The Brian Lehrer Show on December 24th. The unedited audio can be found here.

Noam Chomsky, professor of linguistics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the author of many books including, with Andre Vltchek, On Western Terrorism: From Hiroshima to Drone Warfare, talks about his new book, his body of work and his take on recent events, plus listener calls.

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