Dr. Carlos chats with Noam Chomsky on how America is heading in the direction of a failed state. Born in Philadelphia in 1928, Noam Chomsky is known throughout the world for his political writings, activism, and for for his groundbreaking work in linguistics. A professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology since 1955, Chomsky gained recognition in academic circles for his theory of transformational grammar, which drew attention to the syntactic universality of all human languages.