Edward Said

Chomsky's triumphalistic rhetoric is inversely proportional to the actual empirical results that he can point to. --Frederick Newmeyer, 2003 [273]

Chomsky revived ideas that really had been kind of dormant since the Enlightenment of what is a human like and how does that tie in to our political arrangemen…

The most striking fact is how consistently people with anything at all to say about language feel the need to strike some attitude for or against Chomsky's ide…