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Welcome back to Biography Flash. This week, we're checking in on one of the most influential public intellectuals of our time, Noam Chomsky, and honestly, there's not much breaking news to report on the ground level, but there are some important developments worth noting.

As we move through late October 2025, Chomsky remains largely out of the public eye, continuing a pattern that began over a year ago. According to information shared by his longtime MIT assistant Bev Stohl on public forums, Chomsky, now 95 years old, suffered a stroke in June of last year that has significantly impacted his ability to engage in public life. While he's still with us, watching the news from a hospital in Brazil where his wife Valeria took him for specialist treatment, his condition has shown modest improvement. He's transitioned out of intensive care, though he continues to experience difficulty speaking and mobility challenges on his right side.

The silver lining here? His legacy continues to grow and evolve without him. Just this past week, on October 23rd, Nathan Robinson, editor of Current Affairs and co-author of a recent Chomsky book, spoke at the University of Oregon about the life and legacy of the legendary linguist and political critic. Robinson discussed how Chomsky's decades-long project of exposing the mythologies of U.S. benevolence and documenting the reality of American aggression remains as relevant as ever. Robinson emphasized that he worked with Chomsky to distill five decades of his most powerful insights into an accessible format for a new generation of students who may never have encountered his work before.

What's particularly poignant is that while Chomsky himself remains unable to comment on current events, his analysis of U.S. foreign policy, nuclear threats, and climate catastrophe from his body of work continues to circulate and influence activists and scholars worldwide. His silence during Israel's actions in Gaza has been notably unremarked upon in mainstream media, though those who know him well understand it reflects his health struggles rather than any shift in his convictions.

So while there are no major public appearances or new statements from Chomsky himself this week, his intellectual presence remains felt through those who carry forward his work and ideas.

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