Monday, May 19, 2003

Collier & Horowitz: Destructive Generation: Noam Chomsky
'The intellectual most associated with the view that America is the great Satan is MIT linguistics professor Noam Chomsky.'

I'm interested in critique and development of Chomsky's ideas but it is hard to find a critic that one can take seriously. The sentence quoted above is the opening one of the linked article and it immediately calls to mind Chomsky's withering remark that he didnt read Horowitz when he was a Stalinist and he doesnt read him now. After such a lousy start the article doesnt appear to get any better and one wonders why one would bother.. in a word, dont. It can only be useful as a discussion aid for readers who are not sure what it is that Chomsky is actually saying - which is, not anything much like what Horowitz says he is saying.

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