Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky was recently named the world’s number one public intellectual in a poll by Prospect magazine. He is the author of numerous bestselling political works, including Hegemony or Survival, Imperial Ambitions, Failed States and Perilous Power, all of which are published by Penguin. He lives outside Boston, Massachusetts, and is a professor in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at MIT. His latest book is What We Say Goes (Penguin, 2007).