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“... and inaccuracies perpetrated in order to convey this message have since been pointed out by Noam Chomsky. His criticisms of the use of falsified photographs, shock-horror stories and impressionistic ‘statistics’ have proved powerful. Historians of the Cambodian crisis must now study the provenance and consistency of information on the subject ...”

“... of great rigour and beauty. A recent Edinburgh Review also contains a long essay by Kelman, on Noam Chomsky and the sceptical-democratic tradition in Scottish philosophy. Its intellectual eclecticism and passion for ideas in all shapes and forms should tip everybody off that there’s more to realism than getting the dialect right. I understand that ...”

“... learners don’t make their errors at random in the course of the acquisition process. Rather, as Noam Chomsky famously pointed out, the grammatical and phonological hypotheses about language structure that children think to try out are sharply endogenously constrained. ‘Who Mummy love?’ is recognisably baby talk, but ‘love Mummy who?’ is not; it ...”

“... position. It made me realise that it was not coincidental that public intellectuals like Noam Chomsky and Edward Said held professorships at universities, which must be the last sanctuaries for freedom of speech.’ He decides to apply. Of course Danlin is only a hopeful outsider, entitled to his idealism. Jin himself must know a little more ...”

“... to Kennedy. He was also one of the most able defenders of the opening act of the Vietnam War. When Noam Chomsky attacked ‘conformist intellectuals’ who served American power no less faithfully than the commissars did the Kremlin, Schlesinger was one of his prime exhibits. In a highly competitive field, his talent for lying directly to the public was ...”

“... Mead had become common wisdom by 1950, and sophomores revelled in Whorf from 1956. Tides turned. Noam Chomsky was the most powerful agent in the turning that took place in the 1960s. Citing Descartes all the way, he argued that the ability of children to begin speaking any language spoken around them shows they have an innate capacity to do so, and ...”

“... and super-patriots) and that issues in our own day in the work of Edward Said, Gore Vidal and Noam Chomsky. In that chain, Macdonald forms an important link. And he was enabled by his reading and experience to draw, not just on the native tradition of philosophical anarchism, but also on the more tensile analyses of the Moloch state, based on sexual ...”

“... Bush, Margaret Thatcher and John Major. The heroes are – well, Derrida, of course, but above all Noam Chomsky, here exalted especially because of his sturdily rationalist opposition to Foucault, in an exchange on Dutch Television in the early Seventies about the location of political power. It may be that the contrast between Derridean Deconstruction ...”

“... papers and commentaries are of a standard that few journalists writing today can match. Noam Chomsky has been chronicling the painful truth about American behaviour abroad for over two decades. Unlike most commentators, he has no injunctions for policy-makers. His recent works seem like vast documentations of ‘the real world’ – as opposed ...”

“... Two, have already been offended . . . and what has been given cannot now be undone. In 1958, as Noam Chomsky writes in his introduction to The New Intifada, the CIA concluded that ‘a logical corollary’ of opposition to Arab nationalism ‘would be to support Israel as the only reliable pro-Western power left in the Middle East’. In 1967, Israel ...”

“... pamphlets appears in the same series as several titles by the greatest voice of no! in thunder, Noam Chomsky.) His radicalism, which seemed to many like cushy armchair socialism with the requisite cocked eyebrow of Bloomsbury snobbery, has now achieved street credibility. The protesters who gummed up the works at the WTO meeting in Seattle are ...”

“... language is given its most extended and provocative expression in his long essay ‘A Reading from Noam Chomsky and the Scottish Tradition in the Philosophy of Common Sense’. Kelman is attracted to Chomsky’s belief that ‘in normal speech one does not merely repeat what one has heard but produces new linguistic ...”

“... way of seeing, your British George Monbiot and Mark Curtis, Australia’s John Pilger, America’s Noam Chomsky’ etc. Rage blinded several reviewers to the fact that the speaker turns out to be a provocateur, and le Carré does something similar with The Mission Song’s roll-call of ‘A-list neo-conservatives’, which includes an unnamed former ...”

“... lecturer is about to get his hands on the fatal document. At every turn there are distractions: Noam Chomsky making out with Camille Paglia, ‘an undergrad named Donna’ organising a bacchanal, Guattari ‘hitting on an innocent postgrad from Illinois’. Bayard – who’s being taught a lesson about gender performativity by the young Judith Butler ...”

“... humanism. On the uprooting of Palestinian orchards in Gaza in 1972 to make way for settlements, Chomsky notes here: this is ‘what is called in technical terms “making the desert bloom” ’. There have been refugees before. There have been new states built on the ruins of old. The unique thing about this situation is Palestine’s unusual ...”