/lit/ - Literature

That people still take Chomsky seriously induces fits of chortling.

“A successful academic may be able to use his success to reach the general public on matters about which he is an idiot.”

This is Chomsky in a nutshell. He may know his way around linguistics certainly, but he's been schooled so many times on worldly affairs by the likes of Hitchens that I can commend him only in that he still has the courage to make a fool of himself at any given opportunity.