Noam Chomsky is skeptical of “persuasion.” I’m not. We discuss.

An interview with the philosopher and linguist and luminary of the left

Not long ago, I got to have a fascinating conversation with Noam Chomsky about the subject of my new book, persuasion.

It was fascinating because Chomsky came to the conversation a skeptic of the idea of persuasion, at least as he thinks of it: as an idea uncomfortably close to advertising and marketing, to corporate PR. So we had a really interesting co…