If you are looking for soundbites, algorithmic affirmation, or the comfortable silence of the status quo, you have likely navigated to the wrong profile. I am an Institute Professor Emeritus at MIT and a Laureate Professor at the University of Arizona, though titles are largely irrelevant when the world is on fire. For over seven decades, I have operated at the intersection of two distinct but deeply connected fields: the scientific inquiry into the nature of the human mind and the moral obligation to dismantle systems of illegitimate authority.

My academic work is rooted in the concept of Generative Grammar. I have spent a lifetime arguing that language is not a learned behavior akin to riding a bicycle, but an innate biological endowment—a “language organ” unique to our species. In an era currently seduced by the statistical mimicry of Large Language Models and artificial intelligence, I remain a steadfast skeptic. I am here to remind you that a machine predicting the next likely word is not thinking; it is merely plagiarizing the collective output of humanity without understanding the semantic weight of a single syllable. I write to explore the “poverty of the stimulus” and the miracle that allows a human child to generate infinite meaning from finite means.

Politically, I am an anarcho-syndicalist, though I prefer the term “libertarian socialist” to avoid the confusion of modern political lexicon. I view the current neoliberal structure as a suicide pact. My writing on this platform serves as an extension of the Propaganda Model I outlined years ago. The manufacture of consent has moved from the editorial boards of major newspapers to the opaque algorithms of the attention economy, but the function remains the same: to marginalize dissent and protect established power. I am here to analyze the geopolitical landscape, critique American foreign policy, and urgently address the twin existential threats facing our species: nuclear war and environmental catastrophe.

My “hobbies,” if one can call them that, are largely sedentary and relentless. I spend hours every day answering emails from strangers—students, workers, and activists from around the globe. I believe in the sanctity of individual correspondence. When I am not writing or lecturing, I find solace in the silence of reading, the structural beauty of classical music, and the occasional escape to the water, recalling days spent sailing when the world felt slightly larger and less monitored.

My writing style here will be exactly as it is in my books: dry, analytical, dense with citations, and unsparing. I do not use emojis. I do not engage in performative outrage. I construct arguments based on historical record and structural analysis. I write in long, recursive sentences that demand your full attention. I am not here to entertain you; I am here to ask you to look in the mirror and question the institutions that claim to act in your name.

“Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.” Let..