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He's still alive, but he's in poor health.
Noam Chomsky health update: Famed intellectual ‘no longer able to talk’ | The Independent - "The 95-year-old famed linguist has not been seen in public since June last year"
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Updates on Noam's Health from his long-time MIT assistant, Bev Stohl : r/chomsky - 4 months ago
Media Lens - A Message About Noam Chomsky No doubt like many... | Facebook quoting Bev Stohl from a month ago, also in Reddit?
What happened?
Noam Chomsky Suffered a Stroke in 2023 and Is Recovering in Brazil - 11/06/2024 - World - Folha
Noam Chomsky health update: Famed intellectual ‘no longer able to talk’ | The Independent - "The 95-year-old famed linguist has not been seen in public since June last year"
That may explain his silence on the Israel-Hamas War, something that he'd normally be extremely talkative about. "See? I told you so about how bad Israel is."Noam Chomsky’s health has deterioriated following a medical event, leaving him unable to communicate, his former assistant has said.
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Updates on Noam's Health from his long-time MIT assistant, Bev Stohl : r/chomsky - 4 months ago
andI've been replying to questions on other people's posts about why Noam Chomsky hasn't been returning emails, or interviewing. I'm grateful for the few of you who suggested that I create my own post. So, here it is.
In a nutshell, Noam is 95 years old and has been out of the public eye since last June, as many have noticed. He has not been writing, corresponding, or interviewing, as his health and wellbeing have taken the majority of his time and energy.
The family is very private ...
Media Lens - A Message About Noam Chomsky No doubt like many... | Facebook quoting Bev Stohl from a month ago, also in Reddit?
His ability to speak is complicated by factors I can’t yet disclose. When the relative I’m in touch with visited him a month ago, he did not communicate with her. He is not ambulatory. I’m not sure for how long this will go on. He is not in pain. His eyes are open and he seems to be watching what’s happening around him.
What happened?
Noam Chomsky Suffered a Stroke in 2023 and Is Recovering in Brazil - 11/06/2024 - World - Folha
Before that stroke, he was very busy, studying, writing, speaking, and traveling to conferences.Of Jewish origin, he lived in a kibbutz in northern Israel in 1953.
Besides being a linguist, Chomsky is a respected international political analyst. Of his more than one hundred books, four are specifically about Israel – its wars, governments, and aggressions against the Palestinian people. Despite hundreds of requests from the world press, he has not analyzed the Hamas attack on October 7 and the destruction of Gaza because he had a massive stroke last June. He has difficulty speaking, and the right side of his body is numb.