Noam Chomsky's Wife Denies Death Rumors; Linguist Discharged from Hospital

Valeria Wasserman Chomsky, the prominent linguist and activist Noam Chomsky's wife, claims that news of his passing are unfounded.

She wrote on Tuesday, "No, it is false," in response to an email from The Associated Press. Valeria Chomsky told the AP this week that her father, Noam Chomsky, 95, had spent a year in a Brazilian hospital recuperating from a stroke that occurred a year prior. However, a statement from the Beneficencia Portuguesa hospital in São Paulo indicated that Chomsky was released on Tuesday to resume his therapy at home.

Chomsky was trending on X earlier on Tuesday as erroneous rumors of his passing circulated. Both Jacobin and The New Statesman carried obituaries for Chomsky; however, the former headlined its piece "Let's Celebrate Noam Chomsky" rather than "We Remember Noam Chomsky." The New Statesman completely removed a piece written by Yanis Varoufakis, the former finance minister of Greece.

Since 2015, the Chomskys have lived in Brazil. For many years, Noam Chomsky taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is well-known to millions of people for his criticisms of US foreign policy. He enrolled in the University of Arizona's College of Social and Behavioral Sciences in Tucson in 2017.

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