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Jorn Barger April 2000

1928: born 7 December Avram Noam Chomsky in Philadelphia, Pa.; son of William (Hebrew scholar) and Elsie (Simonofsky)

1949: married Carol Schatz (linguist and specialist in ed tech)

children: Aviva, Diane, Harry Alan.

1949: BA from University of Pennsylvania
1951: MA from University of Pennsylvania
1955: PhD from University of Pennsylvania
1955-58: assistant professor at MIT
1958-62: associate professor at MIT
1958-59: Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton
1962-65: professor at MIT
1966-76: Ferrari P. Ward Professor of Modern Languages and Linguistics at MIT

1969: American Power and the New Mandarins
1970: At War with Asia
1970? supposed speech in Hanoi
1970: "Notes on Anarchism" [article]
1971: Problems of Knowledge and Freedom
1972: (editor w/Howard Zinn) The Pentagon Papers, Volume 5: Critical Essays
1974: (w/Edward Herman) Counterrevolutionary Violence
1975: Peace in the Middle East?
1976-present: Institute Professor at MIT 1977: Dialogues avec Mitsou Ronat (Language and Responsibility)
1978: Human Rights and American Foreign Policy
1979: (w/Herman) The Political Economy of Human Rights

1981: Lectures on Government and Binding
1981: Radical Priorities
1981: flap over Holocaust revisionism
1982: Towards a New Cold War: Essays on the Current Crisis and How We Got There
1982: (w/Jonathan Steele and John Gittings) Superpowers in Collision: The Cold War Now
1982: Some Concepts and Consequences of the Theory of Government and Binding
1982: interview (Vietnam)
1983: The Fateful Triangle: The US, Israel, and the Palestinians [1999 excerpts] [excerpt] [review] ditto
1985: Hitchens's "Chorus and Cassandra" meta-review [etext]
1985: Turning the Tide: U.S. Intervention in Central America and the Struggle for Peace
1986: [interview] (Israel)
1986: Barriers
1986: Pirates and Emperors: International Terrorism in the Real World

1987: On Power and Ideology: The Managua Lectures
1987: The Chomsky Reader edited by James Peck
1988: The Culture of Terrorism
1988: (w/Herman) Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
1989: Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in a Democratic Society [etext]
1989: Language and Politics edited by Carlos P. Otero
1992: What Uncle Sam Really Wants [etext]
1992: Chronicles of Dissent [etext]
1992: Deterring Democracy [etext]
1992: interview (general) [mirror]
1993: Year 501: The Conquest Continues [etext]
1993: Rethinking Camelot: JFK, the Vietnam War, and U.S. Political Culture [etext]
1993: The Prosperous Few and the Restless Many [etext]
1993: "The Clinton Vision" [article]
1993: "'Mandate for Change' or Business as Usual" [artcle]
1994: Keeping the Rabble in Line [etext]
1994: Secrets, Lies and Democracy [etext]

1995: interview (media?) (RealAudio)
1995: interview (media)
1995: interview (anarchism)

1996: Powers and Prospects: Reflections on Human Nature and the Social Order [excerpts]
1996: interview summary (Indochina)
1996: interview (Pentagon)
1997: short interview (human rights, Globalvision) 1998: 70th birthday tribute essays
1998: Talking About a Revolution [excerpts]
1998: The Common Good [excerpts]

Politics: Libertarian socialist.

1999: The New Military Humanism: Lessons From Kosovo [etext]
1999? interview about Microsoft

Bios: [full book] plus review; long, narrative, short


World

Trade: NAFTA, NAFTA 1993; 1997 WTO; neoliberalism; 1998 MAI and followup; debt-Jubilee

Germany: 1999

Kosovo: comments, Jul99 article; article, 1999 artcle; [book etext]

Bosnia: critique of NC

Iraq: 1991, 1991, 1991; 1998; 1999

Middle East: 1991, 1993; 1996

Libya: 1992

Soviet Union: 1977; 1986

Mexico: short interview

Central America: 1988

Panama: short interview

Guatemala: short interview

Nicaragua: 1988; short interview; 1990

Haiti: short interview

El Salvador: 1993; short interview

Colombia: article; 1996, ditto

Chile: short interview; interview; interview

Israel: 1988; 1993; 1993; 1996

East Timor: article; 1999 retrospective; 1999

Vietnam: 1971 forward and essay; 1982 interview, short interview; 1995

Cambodia: 1977, 1977 debate; hullabaloo, ditto, more, more, defense


US presidents:

Clinton: 1993 article ditto; 1994

Bush: 1991

JFK: 1992; [book etext]


Links

Zmag (execrable info design); Bad News

Talene; Great Dreams; Rae West, Lyndes, ejournal; 3rdworld; Duval; very short

critical; mixed?


Linguistics

summary

1957: Syntactic Structures
1964: Current Issues in Linguistic Theory
1965: Aspects of the Theory of Syntax
1966: Cartesian Linguistics: A Chapter in the History of Rationalist Thought
1966: Topics in the Theory of Generative Grammar
1968: (with Morris Halle) Sound Patterns of English
1968: Language and Mind

1971: (w/GA Miller) Analyse formelle des langues naturelles
1972: Studies on Semantics in Generative Grammar
1975: The Logical Structure of Linguistic Theory
1975: Reflections on Language
1977: Essays on Form and Interpretation

1980: Rules and Representations
1980: Language and Learning: The Debate between Jean Piaget and Noam Chomsky edited by Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini
1982: Noam Chomsky on the Generative Enterprise: A Discussion with Riny Huybregts and Henk van Riemsdijk
1986: Knowledge of Language: Its Nature, Origins, and Use
1987: Language and Problems of Knowledge
1987: Language in a Psychological Setting
1988: Generative Grammar: Its Basis, Development, and Prospects

titles of recent papers; ancient ones

ASL chimp


Misc

tapes; CDs

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