Massachusetts Institute of Technology linguist Noam Chomsky accepts his honorary degree.

Noam Chomsky, the world-renowned linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, and institute professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, touched upon a variety of subjects in his most recent interview with Democracy Now host Amy Goodman. According to Chomsky, this is “one of the gravest times in human history.”

Both parts of the hour-long interview are available on Democracy Now‘s official YouTube channel, and on the news program’s official website. Professor Chomsky touched upon a wide variety of issues during the interview: the phenomenon of Donald Trump, violence in Gaza, Brazil’s far-right President-elect Jair Bolsonaro, Saudi-led war in Yemen, and climate change.

“Humans have been around for 200,000 years. For the first time in their history, they have to decide — and quickly — whether organized human society is going to survive for very long.”

The 90-year-old recounted his childhood, drawing a parallel between the rise of fascism then, and the recent resurgence of fascist sentiment.

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