Responsibility I believe accrues through privilege. People like you and me have an unbelievable amount of privilege and therefore we have a huge amount of responsibility. We live in free societies where we are not afraid of the police; we have extraordinary wealth available to us by global standards. If you have those things, then you have the kind of responsibility that a person does not have if he or she is slaving seventy hours a week to put food on the table; a responsibility at the very least to inform yourself about power. Beyond that, it is a question of whether you believe in moral certainties or not.

The couple had two daughters Aviva (b. True there are lots of other things I don't understand: the articles in the current issues of math and physics journals for example. Admittedly that may be my own limitation.

He has been described as a prominent cultural figure and he was voted the "world's top public intellectual" in a 2005 poll. Avram Noam Chomsky (/ˈnoʊm ˈtʃɒmski/; born December 7 1928) is an American linguist philosophercognitive scientist logicianhistorian political critic and activist. After the publication of his first books on linguistics Chomsky became a prominent critic of the Vietnam War and since then has continued to publish books of political criticism.