Noam Chomsky Stirring Up Trouble in All the Right Places

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"And it came to pass, when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said unto him, Art thou he that troubleth Israel?" 1 Kings 18:17.

Noam Chomsky is a troublemaker. He's been stirring things up for most of his 77 years. He's an equal-opportunity chastiser. He's not much concerned with political labels. "The two major parties are far to the right of the public on most issues," he says. His moral compass is fixed on the polar north of his convictions, and it doesn't waver.

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Noam Chomsky Stirring Up Trouble in All the Right Places

This moral certainty brings down on professor Chomsky a lot of adulation and a lot of outrage. He inspires the loathing on one side of the ideological divide that Rush Limbaugh does on the other. He is the arch bogeyman of the American right, the monster conservatives use to frighten their children into eating their vegetables. He antagonizes his enemies to the point tha...

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