Contains some of his best essays: the famous Skinner demolition from the New York Review of Books, "The Responsibility of Intellectuals", and "Foreign Policy and the Intelligentsia". If only Sam Harris had read those last two! (Just kidding, the bloke's too much of a lunatic to learn anything from Chomsky. Incidentally, Sam Harris is a classic example of the Dunning-Kruger Effect in action. Thinks he's a paragon of rationality and disinterested reason when he's actually a mentally impaired zealot.) Apart from that brilliant material, however, I found the book to be wanting. I read the stuff on Anarchism but I just found it to be airy. He doesn't actually say anything; he just quotes some famous anarchist thinkers saying vague things about liberty and so on. It's weird how Chomsky often goes all gooey when he's talking about anarchy and forgets to be the rigorous empiricist he normally is.
Anyhow, buy this book. It really makes you appreciate how much of an intellectual luminary and genius Chomsky is. There is such a muscularity to his arguments sometimes. It's so beautiful. And his face too. What a face. I just love looking at it. No, seriously, it inspires me. Chomsky inspires me so much, even though I know he hates the cult of the personality and would think me pathological for admiring him in this sycophantic, vaguely repellent way.
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