Tag: Noam Chomsky

  • Nation & World

    Danger in creating an English-language library in Gaza

    Harvard Scholar at Risk and poet Abu Toha created the first English-language library in Gaza.

    6 minutes
    Mosab Abu Toha walking down the stairs.
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    The Harvard that was

    Alumni from the 1950s to 2000s share their memories of Harvard and historical events that marked their time in Cambridge.

    8 minutes
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    Alan Dershowitz: ‘Never boring’

    In his final semester teaching, Professor Alan M. Dershowitz and his colleagues look back on his 50 years at Harvard Law School.

    9 minutes
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    Subversive education

    Noam Chomsky on Wednesday joined Bruno della Chiesa, a visiting lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, in an Askwith Forum covering the legacy of the radical Brazilian educator Paulo Freire (1921-1997) and his 1968 book, “Pedagogy of the Oppressed.?????

    3 minutes
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    Where the research takes you

    Steven Pinker, Johnstone Family Professor in the Department of Psychology, and Howard Gardner, John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, met to interview each other about their research, influences, and interests.

    4 minutes
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    The Cognitive Revolution

    Steven Pinker Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology Harvard College Professor

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    Making sense of the truth

    Harvard philosophy professor Mark Richard explores the philosophy of language — and loves a good live music show.

    4 minutes
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    Chomsky rates Obama’s first year

    Activist Noam Chomsky tells the Memorial Church gathering that President Obama, after a year in office, projects a foreign policy with real vision, but “hasn’t succeeded much in practice.”

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