Chomsky retired from MIT in 2002 , although as an emeritus he continued to conduct research and seminars on campus . After the September 11 attacks in 2001 , Chomsky was widely interviewed ; Seven Stories Press collated and published these interviews that October . Chomsky argued that the ensuing War on Terror was not a new development but a continuation of U.S. foreign policy and concomitant rhetoric since at least the Reagan era . In 2003 he published '' Hegemony or Survival '' , in which he articulated what he called the United States ' " imperial grand strategy " and critiqued the Iraq War and other aspects of the War on Terror . Chomsky toured internationally with greater regularity during this period . He gave the D.T. Lakdawala Memorial Lecture in New Delhi in 2001 , and in 2003 visited Cuba at the invitation of the Latin American Association of Social Scientists . In 2002 Chomsky visited Turkey to attend the trial of a publisher who had been accused of treason for printing one of Chomsky 's books ; Chomsky insisted on being a co-defendant and amid international media attention the Security Courts dropped the charge on the first day . During that trip Chomsky visited Kurdish areas of Turkey and spoke out in favor of the Kurds ' human rights . A supporter of the World Social Forum , he attended their conferences in Brazil in both 2002 and 2003 , also attending the Forum event in India
September 11 attacks
September 11 attacks
Noam Chomsky