"If you have to control people, you have to have an administrative force that does it. So in U.S. industry, even more than elsewhere, there's layer after layer of management - a kind of economic waste, but useful for control and domination. And the same is true in universities."
American linguist, philosopher, and public intellectual whose work helped transform modern theoretical linguistics. He is known for generative grammar and for influential writing on politics and media. He taught for decades at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.