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

Salikoko S. Mufwene s-mufwene at UCHICAGO.EDU
Thu Sep 1 02:51:10 UTC 2016


And Wolfe got dissed back by one of my colleagues, an evolutionary 
biologist, here at Chicago:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/his-white-suit-unsullied-by-research-tom-wolfe-tries-to-take-down-charles-darwin/2016/08/31/8ee6d4ee-4936-11e6-90a8-fb84201e0645_story.html?utm_term=.521ee24c3ba5


On 8/31/2016 8:53 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 8:45 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
> wrote:
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>> It gets a lot wrong on the recent history of the field,
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> That goes without saying.
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>> but that probably doesn't bother Wolfe.
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> Of course not.
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