Professor Noam Chomsky delivers the UCL Rickman Godlee Lecture 2011. He explores the crucial role of a supportive intellectual culture in an environment of potentially dangerous irrationality in policy-making circles and among sectors of the political class, while institutional structures bar efforts to confront very serious domestic and international issues.

Professor Noam Chomsky delivers the UCL Rickman Godlee Lecture 2011. He explores the crucial role of a supportive intellectual culture in an environment of potentially dangerous irrationality in policy-making circles and among sectors of the political class, while institutional structures bar efforts to confront very serious domestic and international issues.

Professor Noam Chomsky delivers the UCL Rickman Godlee Lecture 2011. He explores the crucial role of a supportive intellectual culture in an environment of potentially dangerous irrationality in policy-making circles and among sectors of the political class, while institutional structures bar efforts to confront very serious domestic and international issues.