Although I am a bit sceptical of Chomsky's approach to linguistics (he seems to leave out the messy human side of language, reducing it to something easier to study), I think that his other life role as someone who deeply distrusts power is useful to society. I am not saying that I agree with him most of the time, but we need more people like him who have the courage to step outside the box and take a cool hard look at what is happening in the world.
Noam Chomsky is America’s greatest intellectual ????????<p>Never mind Richard Feynman, the guy who thinks socialism works and apologizes for Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot's murdering tens of millions is America's greatest intellectual.