Silly Little Country

a standing affront to the notion of disinterested inquiry.

Occasionally I am asked to go read Noam Chomsky on political topics. Oliver Kamm does yet another bravura job of describing exactly what I have found in the past, duplicitous quotation, hiding important context, speculation masquerading as fact. The subject line describes it perfectly. Another guy, Brad DeLong, whom I love to read, and with whom I do not largely agree, has also discovered this problem.
So advice to the Chomsky fans who want to engage - don't ask me to waste time on him.

posted by Alan Adamson @ 6:16 PM