March 22, 2007

Bloody-minded Nit-picking

Commentary Magazine has put online a 1969 exchange between Noam Chomsky, Lionel Abel, and Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. I highly recommend Schlesinger's initial salvo at Chomsky. It is a bit tiresome, but that's typical of effective Chomsky criticism. Schlesinger is required to quote lengthy passages from a Truman speech to put selectively-quoted words back into context, but he spices up the substantive criticism with some good jibes at Chomsky's intellectual honesty. It's really a lot of fun.
(hat tip)

Posted by Ben Brumfield at March 22, 2007 07:17 AM
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