noam Chomsky

By Trung Tran, 12 September, 2017
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Visiting Egypt in the eighties, Noam Chomsky marvelled at the intellectuals and university professors who had invited him there in the midst of political turmoil. “They haven’t got water or electricity in parts of Cairo,” he is said to have remarked, “and all they are talking about is postmodernism.”

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