"Israel is following policies which maximise its security threats... policies which choose expansion over security... policies which lead to their moral degradation, their isolation, their delegitimation, as they call it now, and very likely ultimate destruction. That's not impossible."
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.