Linguist, political anarchist, the world’s top public intellectual (according to a 2005 British poll) and MIT Professor Noam Chomsky will visit Columbia on February 5 to speak about American foreign policy and linguistics. The first lecture, entitled “The Mysteries of Nature: How Deeply Hidden?” will take place at 4 p.m. at the Teatro of the Italian Academy. The second, a response to Harold Pinter’s 2005 Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech (in which Pinter voiced strong criticism of U.S. foreign policy, calling the country “brutal, scornful and ruthless), is scheduled for 6:15 p.m. at Miller Theater.