Noam Chomsky: Tributes and Health Status
TimeMay 27
Noam Chomsky in Hospital After Suffering Stroke
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The Facts
Noam Chomsky's wife has confirmed to the media this week that her 95-year-old husband, one of the world's most renowned social critics and public intellectuals, is currently hospitalized in Brazil while recovering from a stroke suffered in June 2023.
Born in 1928, Chomsky became a full professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1961, having earned a PhD in linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania in 1955 while also sitting as a Junior Fellow at Harvard University. Chomsky has been a public critic of Israel since 1969.
The Spin
Progressive narrative
Noam Chomsky is one of the greatest intellectuals and social critics the world has ever seen. Both the father of modern linguistics and a staunch critic of American foreign policy, even in ill health Chomsky continues to be a beacon of hope and resistance for those in Gaza and beyond.
Conservative narrative
Chomsky's highbrow reputation is merely a veil for anti-Israeli hatred. Like many other infamous left-wing critics, the academic has for decades incorrectly used conflict in the Middle East as a template for an overly-simplified perception of a good versus evil — an oppressor versus oppressed world that simply does not match reality.
