Welcome to the Origins Podcast and the Origins Project Foundation.

I'm your host here, Lawrence Krause,

and I want to introduce what may be a new continuing series,

which really goes back to one of our first guests

and one of our most popular podcasts with none other than Noam Chomsky.

I asked Noam if we could periodically update our discussion by talking about current events.

So here you go, current events with Noam Chomsky.

My idea of society that works is you have education, open questioning, open discussion, and decide together how to do things to benefit everyone.

You can't have open discussion with censorship. Now, I've known from my days as a student in one of your classes that, yes, there's much effect, there's effective subtle censorship and there has been for a long time.

You know, you couldn't, you weren't, didn't appear in the New York Times for a long time.

I mean, so there are ways of censoring out ideas, you know, like, but of concern to me is the overt

censorship that's now happening in this country, mostly driven by the left.

It was overt before before but nobody paid

attention i could give you plenty of cases from my own experience yeah yeah i guess so but

it's just books destroyed all sorts of things since it was directed against the left nobody cared

it was but now that now it's picking picked up by sectors of the left it's wrong

in principle it's tactically idiotic it's a gift to the far right and it's wrong in principle and it's wrong in

principle and it's harming it's harming discussion it is it's not only harming. It's harming discussion.

It is.

It's not only harming discussion.

It's stifling it because of fear in the places where, in the one place that you and I know best, which is academia, you know everything, but I know best as academia.

I wrote a piece, Noam, on which I, because I was concerned about what I call the ideological corruption of science, which is basically where people can't talk about, can't ask questions.

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