"In the US, there is basically one party - the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies. By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population."
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.