John Mearsheimer vs. Noam Chomsky

Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers

John Mearsheimer

John Mearsheimer

1947 – present

Science
United States

John Joseph Mearsheimer is an American political scientist and international relations scholar. He is the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago.

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"Furthermore there's the whole argument that the administration made, that so many people were killed by chemical weapons. Their number was around 1,400, the fac…"

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Noam Chomsky

Noam Chomsky

1928 – present

Philosophy
United States
atheism

Avram Noam Chomsky is an American intellectual, linguist, political activist, and social critic. Sometimes called "the father of modern linguistics", Chomsky is also a major figure in analytic philosophy and one of the founders of the field of cognitive science. He is a laureate professor of linguistics at the University of Arizona and an institute professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

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"I should say that when people talk about capitalism it's a bit of a joke. There's no such thing. No country, no business class, has ever been willing to subject…"

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Connections

Noam Chomsky was influenced by John Mearsheimer
Overlapped from 1947

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