Noam Chomsky on Identity Politics, Free Speech, and China

The Good Fight

Yascha Mounk

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4.7 • 963 Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Noam Chomsky, professor emeritus of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has for many decades been one of the most prominent critics of U.S. foreign policy. In this week’s conversation, Noam Chomsky and Yascha Mounk discuss the theory of universal grammar, whether identity politics can be left-wing, and how the world should treat an ascendant China. This transcript has been condensed and lightly edited for clarity. Please do listen and spread the word about The Good Fight. If you have not yet signed up for our podcast, please do so now by following this link on your phone. Email: podcast@persuasion.community Website: http://www.persuasion.community Podcast production by John T. Williams, and Brendan Ruberry Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Connect with us! Spotify | Apple | Google Twitter: @Yascha_Mounk & @joinpersuasion Youtube: Yascha Mounk LinkedIn: Persuasion Community Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:59.0	My name is Greg Luci Ganoff.
1:00.0	I'm the president and CEO of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Education
1:04.3	where I defend free speech and academic freedom on campus. I'm also the co-author
1:09.0	with Jonathan Hite, my friend and social psychologist of a book that came out in 2018 called
1:14.9	Coddling the American Mind. Our piece for persuasion is called the
1:19.0	Polarization spiral and it's about how the right and left feed off each other to make things so much worse for
1:27.4	politics in the US.
1:29.0	The article itself is part of a afterward that originally we were going to write for
1:33.6	coddling the American mind to come in the second edition.
1:36.3	We ended up being way too long.
1:38.4	So we're doing it in chunks and we hope to finish it by the end of the year
1:42.3	in nine different chunks talking about what we found since
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