"Destroying hope is a critically important project. And when it is achieved, formal democracy is allowed— even preferred, if only for public relation purposes. In more honest circles, much of this is conceded. Of course, it is understood much more profoundly by beasts in men's shapes who endure the consequences of challenging the imperatives of stability and order."
American linguist, philosopher, and public intellectual whose work helped transform modern theoretical linguistics. He is known for generative grammar and for influential writing on politics and media. He taught for decades at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.