Noam Chomsky on American Identity, Fear, and the 4th of July

Frankie Martin, Ibn Khaldun chair research fellow at the American University in Washington DC, reflects on a conversation with Noam Chomsky, Institute Professor of Linguistics....It was last October, and I was sitting face to face with Noam Chomsky at MIT.  Chomsky was answering a question posed by Akbar Ahmed, American University's chair of Islamic studies: "What is American identity?"