Four talks by Chomsky on a trip to Europe. The first two are very big-picture speculations on the future of linguistics, directed at a nonspecialist audience, covering a lot of the same ground. The main point seems to be that linguistics is in the same place relative to neuroscience as chemistry was relative to physics in the nineteenth century - it can be reduced to neuroscience eventually, but only after a lot of empirical work and conceptual rethinkings of linguistics that we aren't in a position to make yet, and maybe even bigger overhauls of neuroscience. The next and longest is an interview with Chomsky about the newest research strategy in his branch of linguistics, the Minimalist Program. This throws around a lot of jargon that I'm not familiar with, even with basic syntax from Intro to Linguistics and a lot of knowledge about historical and descriptive linguistics, and the editors' introduction doesn't help even though it's supposed to. Chomsky comes across as a lot more humble and empirically oriented than that Intro to Linguistics class left me expecting; on the other hand, it still sounds like he and his school are basing their theories on an inexcusably small set of languages. even with humility accounted for. The last essay is political and I hope it gets through some people's heads how indistinguishable the US's violence toward people in other countries has been from the USSR's, and hasn't changed since the USSR's been gone.