25 min

Noam Chomsky with Nihal Arthanayake The Penguin Podcast

    • Society & Culture

Considered the Founder of Modern Linguistics and voted the World’s Top Public Intellectual, Noam joins Nihal to discuss his prescient 2017 book ‘Optimism Over Despair’, which has just been made into an audiobook. It takes the form of a series of interviews, addressing many issues still relevant today. Noam imparts his wisdom to Nihal (down the line from Arizona) about topics ranging from US politics to the climate crisis and also reveals one of the things he realises that he got wrong in his past #PenguinPodcast 
 
 
‘Optimism Over Despair’ is available to buy here - https://apple.co/2zamyKd 
And will be available as an audiobook from June 4th - https://adbl.co/3fidtyW 

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Considered the Founder of Modern Linguistics and voted the World’s Top Public Intellectual, Noam joins Nihal to discuss his prescient 2017 book ‘Optimism Over Despair’, which has just been made into an audiobook. It takes the form of a series of interviews, addressing many issues still relevant today. Noam imparts his wisdom to Nihal (down the line from Arizona) about topics ranging from US politics to the climate crisis and also reveals one of the things he realises that he got wrong in his past #PenguinPodcast 
 
 
‘Optimism Over Despair’ is available to buy here - https://apple.co/2zamyKd 
And will be available as an audiobook from June 4th - https://adbl.co/3fidtyW 

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

25 min

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