If my grandpas were still alive, they would only be 3 to 4 years older than Chomsky is right now. This man has seen the Great Depression, Europe's descent into fascism, WWII, the Civil Rights Movement, all significant Women's Rights movements since the suffrage, Vietnam, Corea, the Cold War, the rise and decline of neoliberalism, the fall of the Soviet Union, 9/11 and the iraque war. And somehow, he still figured out to remain on the right side of history. If there ever was such a thing like a living legend, he'd be probably the closest to it.

He looks so sad, like he's been carrying this grim knowledge for years with no sign of hope presenting itself.

I once met Noam Chomsky on a train in Boston and he even let me take a selfie with him. Cool guy!

Wonderful to see an outlet interviewing Noam and the young lady asking intelligent questions and not cutting him off. Great job!

Might want to include Linguist in your description of Noam. He kinda revolutionized the field. Small detail, but significant.

This segment needs to be re-mastered.

IF you cannot understand his voice in this interview (bad audio), then use the subtitles on KZfaq. Here is how: When you click on the link above, it takes you to the video. Before the video starts, click on the tiny "GEAR" icon for the video SETTINGS. This is shown on the bottom right margin of the video image. Look for the tiny wheel like GEAR icon. Click on that. Then, look at that sub menu and find SUBTITLES, click on that and choose ENGLISH (if that is what you want). When I do this, the subtitles show large (you can adjust size too) on my screen on the video. You can do this for MOST videos on KZfaq. Perhaps not all (I am not sure). I hope that helps you. :) Also, you can adjust the playback speed if you want. Look under that same GEAR (SETTINGS) icon menu, for PLAYBACK SPEED. I sometimes choose .75 speed to slow fast talkers down if I am taking notes.

“That the goal is to maximize profit ,Their concern is not the welfare of the population. “ Noam Chomsky

Bring Chris Hedges too.

I was honored to attend one of Chomsky's lectures years ago. Truly amazing man.

Wow!!! You got to interview Noam Chomsky. He's the most insightful person I've seen on this earth in my 76 years. Banned everywhere and suddenly, the Millenials have discovered him. It truly warms my heart. h.

I understood every word, but I really had to focus. Someone please remaster this at The Hill.

Chomsky: an American national treasure.

The ship is sinking and I'm hoping my family can survive long enough for Europe's America travel ban to be lifted

JFC is his microphone under water? A shame this isn't more audible, love this man

Notice how he's more eloquent than Biden at 91...

It is such an honor to see professor Noam Chomsky on your stream, thank you Krystal.

Chomsky says, " Get rid of the Trump malignancy."

With time, Chomsky's face has molded into Socrates; intellectually he has always been on par with him. Please have someone do a CC, the auto-generated version is flawed.

Q: "Can it be done?" A: "Matter of action, not speculation"

imagine spending your entire life explaining how doomed we are as a society, right up to the end.

One of the most important voices of our times. CAN SOMEONE PLEASE PONY UP THE FIFTY DOLLARS FOR A USB MICROPHONE??? His audio stream sounds like people walking over 200 year old floorboards.

So why is Saagar never around for I/vs with these heavyweight figures like Cornel West and Noam Chomsky? Obviously a rhetorical question.

Chomsky has a very clear voice and speaks English very well, so I would guess that the mic on his computer is a pos. Since, because of his brilliant mind, he's always in demand to be interviewed, someone should take the time to fix his audio.

Other diseases coming our way when the permafrost melts further...

Somebody needs to buy the old master a modern microphone.

This realist attitude is what is needed to sober us up.

Melania: "Did you hear what Professor Chomsky's been saying about you?" Donald: "Who?" Melania: "He's a professor of linguistics." Donald: "Where's that?"

With all due respect, I'm not voting for Biden if he's not guaranteeing progressive policies. Biden is going senile, Harris is a puppet. I'm not voting out of fear of Trump period.

Noam Chomsky's book "Who Rules the World?" changed my perspective on *everything*

I remember Noam one said “Education is a system of imposed ignorance”. In my opinion 2020 is the culmination of that very statement.

When I watch Naom chomsky I remember Edward Said ,both are great men ,where the universe needs such scholars , Edward passed away in n 2003 ,l wish long life to Naom .

thank you so much for this interview with this brilliant man....and you just let him speak, which is so rare in interviews these days. thank you for your question about our path forward as well.

So important to hear from Chomsky on "The Hill"!! MORE OF IT PLEASE!!

The closed captioning just gave up after a while during Chomsky's interview. I love what Chomsky has to say but, even with better audio, I can only decipher a fraction of what he's saying nowadays.

Thank you for this interview, my favorite intellectual figure on my favorite news show!

Man he looks rougher and rougher everytime I see him give an interview.

Wow the GOAT himself

100 years from now when historians are looking to write about this period they will undoubtable turn to Chomsky's writings for the truth.

Congratulations on a fine interview with one of the great thinkers of our time. And thank you for not cutting short his answers to these critically important questions, as so many other interviewers would do in order to "move on" to some other topic. Keep up the great work!

'Without the free exchange of ideas there is no freedom' Hannah Ardent.

Kinda sucks that he’s so hard to understand, and I imagine Krystal musta felt horribly awkward having to cut him off to end the segment.

Bring on Slavoj Zizek, Tariq Ali, Norman Finkelstein, Henry Giroux, Derrick Jensen, Chris Hedges, Mark Blyth and David Greaber.

Surely someone can get Prof Chomsky a better microphone.

YES, DEFINITELY.

It would be helpful if Noam Chomsky invested in a better quality microphone that can handle his lower register voice. Interviews with him from his home, are always difficult to understand.

YOU GOT CHOMSKY ON HERE GAD DAMN!!

Will there be a written transcript of this? Would be helpful.

KRYSTAL BALL: "So, it is truly an honor to get to introduce you to our next guest. I'm excited. I think you'll be excited, too. "One of the most cited public intellectuals of our time, professor emeritus at MIT, historian, author, political activist, scholar, Noam Chomsky. Great to have you, professor, so great to speak with you." (0:20) DR. NOAM CHOMSKY: "Glad to be with you." KRYSTAL BALL: "So, there's so many things that we could talk about. But I was wondering if you could start by putting this moment we are living through in a little bit of context. "I mean we have this unbelievable pandemic. We have racial unrest and uprisings across the country. We have a Great Depression. We have the existential threat of climate change, and so many things that we are living through right now. "How does this compare to other things, that you have lived through, that you've studied? "Help us put this into context." (c. 0:54) DR. NOAM CHOMSKY: "This is a unique moment in history, in human history, not just my lifetime. "We're living at a point of confluence of severe crises. There's another one, that you didn't mention---equally severe---the increasing threat of terminal nuclear war. "So, nuclear war, destruction of the environment, a raging pandemic (and others likely to come, unless we prepare for them); innumerable problems internal to the country. "There's never been a moment in human history when such a confluence of crises emerged. And the decisions about them have to be made very soon. They cannot be delayed. (c.1:47) "Nuclear war could break out at anytime. We've livedunder the shadow of the Cold War for 75 years. (c. 1:57) [...] "Within the next decade or so, we will decide whether our grandchildren, your grandchildren, will have a world in which humans can survive." KRYSTAL BALL: (c. 15:33) "Professor, I wanted to ask you about the future of the American left [i.e. the political grouping of Americans on the left side of the single-axis left-right political spectrum model]. "Obviously, many were demoralised by Bernie Sanders' second loss this time around. And there's this open debate about what he right path is forward. "Do you try again to have this sort of political revolution from within the Democratic Party to kick out the neoliberals? Do you start an entirely new third party? [Do you fight for ranked-choice voting and/or proportional representation in congress?] There's a new effort underway, with the People's Party, to start something new, a working-class focus, from scratch. "Which way do you think is the most likely to succeed? And, then, do you think that it's possible to influence and move a Biden administration, if he does, in fact, win the presidency?" (c. 16:16) DR. NOAM CHOMSKY: "All we can say is that, assuming he's elected, it'd better be possible, or else we're in serious trouble. "But, yes, I think it is possible. [...]

"We're living at a point of confluence of severe crises". Yes, we are.

I’ve been waiting for you guys to interview this man. Thank you. 🥰❣️Well done this week you had prof west and prof Chomsky. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

DR. NOAM CHOMSKY: "This is a unique moment in human history. We're living at a point of confluence of severe crises. [...] So, nuclear war, destruction of the environment, a raging pandemic (and others sure to come, unless we prepare for it); innumerable problems internal to the country. "There's never been a moment in history with such confluence of crises emerged. [...] "Within the next decade or so, we will decide whether our grandchildren, your grandchildren, will have a world in which humans can survive." KRYSTAL BALL: (c. 15:33) "Professor, I wanted to ask you about the future of the American left [i.e. the political grouping of Americans on the left side of the single-axis left-right political spectrum model]. "Obviously, many were demoralised by Bernie Sanders' second loss this time around. And there's this open debate about what he right path is forward. "Do you try again to have this sort of political revolution from within the Democratic Party to kick out the neoliberals? Do you start an entirely new third party? [Do you fight for ranked-choice voting and/or proportional representation in congress?] There's a new effort underway, with the People's Party, to start something new, a working-class focus, from scratch. "Which way do you think is the most likely to succeed? And, then, do you think that it's possible to influence and move a Biden administration, if he does, in fact, win the presidency?" (c. 16:16) DR. NOAM CHOMSKY: "All we can say is that, assuming he's elected, it'd better be possible, or else we're in serious trouble. "But, yes, I think it is possible.

Chomsky's "Manufacturing Consent" is a milestone of modern critical theory.

Who could give him a well-deserved introduction in less than 30 seconds to national treasure Professor Noam Chomsky? NOBODY but Krystal. One can tell that his modesty tires of accolades. Intellectual and moral hero, I salute you!

Thanks to the 1% who have planned this mess for years

It sounds a bit clearer when played at 1.5x speed.

When you press your ear against the side of the aquarium so you can hear the fish talk.

Noam needs a microphone. Hill staff: please prep him next time - his valuable perspective needs to be heard clearly!

Thank you for your time Noam.

This man has been speaking truth to power for 60 years. Pay attention. He knows more than you do.

Cab someone get this man a decent microphone.....

Pleaseeeeee have Chris Hedges on the show next ;)

Dark but true. Thank you, Krystal, for keeping it real. Progressives must face facts.

it is interesting that noone else ever mentions the threat of nuclear war

His body may be failing, but his mind still shines like a diamond. It would be nice if he could live long enough to see We The People reroute our country's road to ruin. Thank you Krystal for this wonderful interview. Noam is one of my touchstones for sanity.

awesome of you to get Mr. Chomsky on, too bad about the audio quality.

How exactly has Biden moved to the left? He has not.

Some of you have never actually lived in a failed state and it shows

It's probably morbid to think such thoughts, but with Chomsky in his 90s, I already dread the day when he is no longer with us. The world may be burning, but at least for now Chomsky's still around and coherent enough to tell us how to fix it. Somehow the presence of his wise and sane voice makes me feel calm, and less alone. I will be so heartbroken when he's gone.

It would be great if they arranged to put a studio mic for Noam, he's voice could be heard with all its splendour.

Chomsky is the world's number one pessimist.

Well I think noam always tells the truth and realizes how horrible political, economic, environmental, and the war mongers has hastened our human demise.

When determining the fate of a system by assessing the amount of entropy occurring within it, and you consider the amount of entropy occurring with the planet, and with the human condition, for example the confluence of events described, in addition to a well-established system reverting to political and economic regression, including contributing to the Anthropocene, 6th mass biodiversity extinction, and climate catastrophe, and the solution is to remove a malignancy that achieved the highest office in the land, and to use nonviolence to shift another verifiable malignancy a little bit to the left, and hope that’s enough to jumpstart an entire sequence of events, which if they each succeed, might barely forestall the worst consequences of inertias already set in motion, it’s time to rethink the human condition at the most causal level of reductionism possible, objectify whatever toxic biological determinism exists, and move in the distinctly opposite direction as fast as possible.

Seeing such a revered and admirable mind be slowly taken down by an aging and rapidly degrading body is both heartbreaking and in a unique way even more admirable. Even at 91 he has the need to come out to voice his opinions for a better world. I cannot possibly wish even more longevity on a man like this, I can only wish good health for as long as he's still with us.

Congrats to Krystal and Saagar for giving us wise - and cautionary - words from Professor Chomsky.

Yes failed state. If you think the responsibility of the state is to help and protect the largest number of human beings as possible there is no doubt we are a failed state. If you think the job of the state is to produce capital for a small minority of people then the state is doing exactly as it should.

Noam is so right and I'm frightened of fascism and authoritarianism in the US.

The audio on Chomsky is so horrendous; I can’t even listen to the whole thing. I WANT to, but it nails on a chalkboard. OMG. Rising, can’t you do better????

I've never seen a person speak in front of a full bookcase of books where I ever thought, "I bet this guy actually read them all", until now.

in other words, WE ARE DOOMED! Thanks, Norm for sharing the truth.

The audio is not great, and still as always, this man speaks and everything is crystal clear

You can tell just how wise Chomsky is by the amount of times He gets invited on to Mainstream TV :) Thanks for having the venerable Chomsky on guys.

The Hill: Mr Chomsky, will you sit for an interview? Chomsky: I dont have time for soundbite sophomoric rhetoric. . The Hill: No, no, Krystal only.

Noam Chomski is a linguist. Maybe ask a political scientist whether we are a failed state. A failed state is when the govt has completely collapsed. It's when there is no govt. He can speak to our condition, but the classification has a definition. There is something worse than being ruled by an authoritarian regime. It's a failed state. There is much romanticizing about a rightwing utopia without a govt. They romanticize a failed state, and it's so horrible that it caused Machiavelli to figure out how the only kind of govt that had ever existed (until 250 years ago) worked in order to prevent that from happening again. Democracies are the only govts that must provide for the welfare of the citizenry. Losing your democracy isn't a failed state. This is simply a result of people voting their democracy away and choosing authoritarian rule. If you want a democracy, then fight for it.

I cannot get enough of Noam Chomsky. Even at 90...whatever years old, he's so much more influential than most.

You cant pull the Dems left. Those days are gone!!

What are we going to do when Mr. Chomsky is gone!? 😪

Anyone who throws a dislike on a Noam interview has taken leave of his senses.

I feel so depressed and hopeless. Every decision made by the elites has been making me more and more cynical about humanity’s outlook. I know that fatalism is problematic, but how is someone my age supposed to avoid it?

Don't forget police brutality towards POC!!!!!

Had to stop half way through. The sound quality was unbearable. No idea wtf he's saying, which is a shame. Speak up Noam and get a decent 🎤

I'm a historian like Noam Too, but I disagree with Noam on this topic. The corona-and economic crisis aren't necasairy leadership-crisis, but a policy-made crisis. Noam wants to concentrate on Trump, but the problem is far bigger then Trump. Trump is actually an outcome instead of a cause and with Biden we have also a person who actually agrees on Trumps economic policies and only moved a little bit because he wants to win the elections. If he was president instead of Trump we would be probably in the almost exact same position. We can put the blame on Trump, but what about the reasons someone like Trump could become president, let alone still has a chance to get a second term? In a good-working democracy candidates would have done more for voters and we would have an ecomical functional right and left spectrum like also many other western countries in for example Europe have. If donor-choices can have such a hugh impact on who we can choose, we have to ask ourselves if we actually live in a democracy or an olichargy disguised as a democracy in wich both main-party candidates who actually have a chance to run are under controll of wallstreet and countries like Saudi Arabia, Israel and all other countries who can give money to our candidates. We haven't Trump because he is such a good candidates, but because the other candidates that are chosen by donors are actually even worse for common lower and middle income voters. In other countries we would call donor-activities corruption and the country even tried to prosecute a FIFA-boss for doing the same as presidential candidates have to do to have a big enough deposit to run effectively. This caused actually two parties that aren't distinct enough on economical policies and who try to mask that by focussing on personal issues and other non-policy baised distractions instead on economical policy-plan differences.

Y'all finally got the legend on the show!

Is there a transcript of this conversation? I love you Noam, but I can’t hear you.

I seen videos of Noam Chomsky 5 years ago in my second year of university in a computer science class of all places and you can really tell that the lockdown and age has hit him hard.

I have difficulty hearing what he says, the sound is so bad.

I know he's spitting straight facts but I can only understand maybe 40% of the words he's saying

*FOLLOW JIMMY DORE FOR AN EVEN DEEPER LEVEL OF HARD TRUTH.* 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😘😘😘😘😘

this is a chilling interview! It made me cry!

Fantastic interview, Krystal! Thank you Rising!