Noam Chomsky

Since its inception in the early 20th century, neuroscience has taught us a tremendous amount about the brain. Our sensations have been reduced to a set of specific circuits. The mind has been imaged as it thinks about itself, with every thought...

1½ stars (out of four) The title of this self-important little documentary pays homage to "Manufacturing Consent," Noam Chomsky's classic diatribe against the dangers of corporate media. "Michael & Me" would have been far more appropriate. "Dissent"...

Victor A. Garcia volunteered for a war he thought was wrong, in an Army commanded by a president he didn't support. He read books by leftist critic Noam Chomsky, and one of his few blog entries on his MySpace.com page wonders, "What more evidence do we...

"WHY I joined: The question has been asked of me so many times in so many different contexts that I thought it would be best if I wrote my reasons for joining the Army on my page for all to see." Oct. 29, 2006. On the night before he deployed to Iraq,...

THE PHONE RINGS. Larry Flynt's Hustler magazine wants me for a Q&A (not T&A) about all things propaganda. The editor is familiar with my books, knows me as a critic of the Bush propaganda machine. I've been a propaganda scholar since before it was...

Bringing his verbal war against the White House to the UN, Venezuela's President Hugo Chávez yesterday branded President George W. Bush "the devil" and the United States an "imperialist empire" on the verge of collapse. "The devil came here yesterday ......

Standing before the UN General Assembly on Wednesday as he wound up to deliver a vitriolic personal attack on President George Bush, Venezuela's President Hugo Chávez held up a copy of Noam Chomsky's book, "Hegemony or Survival" and urged his audience...

Can one be naked and accessorize? This philosophical and sartorial question is ridiculous enough to be featured on Comedy Central's latest bit of nuttiness, "The Naked Trucker and T-Bones Show," premiering Wednesday, Jan. 17. The Naked Trucker (David...

The police chief -------------------- By William J. Bratton -------------------- SEPT. 11, 2001, primary election day in New York City, began as a picture-perfect day. Early that morning, I'd done a call-in interview with radio show host Don...

IN 1972, Robert Redford played the title role in "The Candidate," a movie about a young California politician with an uneasy relationship with his father, a former governor played by Melvyn Douglas. Ever since, Jerry Brown has been a mirror and a...

Working his way through the Z-movie pantheon of '70s exploitation subgenres, rocker-filmmaker Rob Zombie transitions from house of horrors homage to serial killer road movie with this crass, vacuous exercise in grind-house stylistics. As in his 2003...

(U). The dominant institution in contemporary life is insane: Understatedly passionate, wide-ranging treatise on the U.S. corporate entity, which enjoys all the rights of a human being and none of the responsibility. Directed by Jennifer Abbott and Mark...