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Peter Collier & David Horowitz, editors The Anti-Chomsky Reader. Encounter Books, 260 pages, $17.95 (paper)
One of the main reasons Noam Chomsky's political views are taken seriously in universities and the media is because he has an awesome reputation for scientific accomplishment in the field of linguistics. He is among the ten most cited authors in the humanities--trailing only Marx, Lenin, Shakespeare, the Bible, Aristotle, Plato, and Freud--and the only living member of the top ten. Last year The New Yorker called him "one of the greatest minds of the twentieth century."
Were it not for this status, many of his obsessive and outlandish political ...