[Ads-l] Tom Wolfe disses Noam Chomsky ...

[Laurence Horn]

There's a shorter version (but still pretty long for a magazine article) that appears in the current (August 2016) issue of Harper's.  It gets a lot wrong on the recent history of the field, but that probably doesn't bother Wolfe.  (And I'm not an acolyte of either Chomsky or Everett, who according to Wolfe is the knight that slew the Chomskyan dragon.)  I downloaded a .pdf (although not a subscriber) via http://harpers.org/archive/2016/08/the-origins-of-speech/ but probably only because I was logging on from Yale at the time.


LH

> On Aug 31, 2016, at 5:40 PM, Joel Berson <berson at ATT.NET> wrote:
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> and Charles Darwin, in his new book, The Kingdom of Speech.  (Darwin fares better than Chomsky.)  NYTimes, today, "In Defense of a Gift, Darwin Be Damned," by Dwight Garner (Books of the Times).
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