Required Reading: Who Is Noam Chomsky?
Since Hugo's infomercial on Chomsky, his book sales have increased and you have to wonder if Hugo gets a commission. For those of you who don't know Chomsky's background, WSJ Opinion Journal has a good intro.
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For it is his ability to excite not just contempt for American foreign policy but a lively sense that it is guided by some kind of criminal conspiracy that provides the motive for Prof. Chomsky's unceasing diatribes and the explanation of his influence. The world is full of people who wish to think ill of America. And most of them would like to be Americans. The Middle East seethes with such people, and Prof. Chomsky appeals directly to their envious emotions, as well as to the resentments of leaders like President Chavez who cannot abide the sight of a freedom that they haven't the faintest idea how to produce or the least real desire to emulate. |
Source: http://www.opinionjournal.com/la/?id=110008997
Read the entire article Who Is Noam Chomsky? by Roger Scruton.