Noam Chomsky… This is a big deal!

You should probably go see him speak. (Information courtesy of Trinity College.)

What: Noam Chomsky, professor emeritus of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and one of this country’s leading intellectuals, will deliver a lecture entitled, “The Obama Transition: Crises, Challenges, Opportunities.” The lecture is free and open to the public.

When: Wednesday, April 15 at 4:30 p.m.

Where: The Washington Room in Mather Hall on the Trinity campus.

Background: Chomsky is one of the United States’ true renaissance scholars, having been known throughout his career as one of the fathers of modern linguistics, a philosopher, cognitive scientist, political activist, author and lecturer. Since the 1960s, he has also acquired a reputation as a political dissident, an anarchist and a libertarian socialist intellectual. He’s written more than 100 books.

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