Re: Parody biography of Chomsky

From:    John Cowan <cowan@...>
> http://www.teemings.com/issue15/covertcomic.html
And here's an excellent review of a biography of Chomsky by
my professor John Goldsmith which touches on why both Chomsky's
linguistic ideas and his politics rub some people the wrong way
(e.g. most famously his defense of a Holocaust-denier):

<http://humanities.uchicago.edu/faculty/goldsmith/barsky.htm>

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