Sunday, September 7, 2003
Norman Geras feels a bit guilty for only happening upon this Brad DeLong take-down of the MIT professor, which is OK, since I hadn't seen it either, and wouldn't have had he not linked it.
"Never get involved in a land war in Asia." "Never go up against a Sicilian when death is on the line." And now, "Never get involved in an argument over Noam Chomsky."
The Chomsky defenders--and there seem to be a surprisingly large number of them--seem to form a kind of cult. Arguing with them seems to be a lot like trying to teach Plato's Republic to a pig: it wastes your time, and it annoys the pig. But I've spent more than enough time on this over the past three months: time to let it out of the cage...
