Video: The Responsibility of Intellectuals, Redux

Video of an Ideas Matter event held at MIT on September 22, 2011

September 22, 2011

In 1967, as the Vietnam War escalated, Noam Chomsky penned “The Responsibility of Intellectuals,” a stunning rebuke to scientists and scholars for their subservience to political power. Today we face a similar array of crises, from wars to escalating debt. What are the obligations of intellectuals in this day and age?

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