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Noam Chomsky Talks Presidential Politics

Posted by ZP Heller, Al Jazeera at 9:21 AM on July 1, 2008.


Chomsky is the most cited author alive, next to Plato, Freud, and the Bible.

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In the world of academia Noam Chomsky is the most cited author alive. He talks to Inside USA about politics in the United States and this Presidential election.

See part 2 of this interview here.

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Tagged as: george bush, iraq war, noam chomsky, al jazeera, avi lewis, inside usa

ZP Heller is the editorial director of Brave New Films. He has written for The American Prospect, AlterNet, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and The Huffington Post, covering everything from politics to pop culture.


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Umm...about the tag line.
Posted by: Declan on Jul 1, 2008 3:03 PM   
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You know the line following the headline? It describes Chomsky as the most quoted or cited etc...
Well whoever wrote that needs to be informed that the two other most quoted people aren't actually alive anymore. And the Bible isn't the name of any author that I'm aware of, dead or alive.

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Most cited...
Posted by: fanny666 on Jul 1, 2008 3:05 PM   
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Just FYI, that's a list of most cited sources in the Humanities, in academic journals, according to a survey by the Institute for Scientific Information.

1 Marx
2 Lenin
3 Shakespeare
4 Aristotle
5 The Bible
6 Plato
7 Freud
8 Chomsky
9 Hegel
10 Cicero

Free Chomsky lectures at radio4all.net.

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