Noam Chomsky in 1969

by Richard Kostelanetz (May 2016)

These display what all scientific revolutions are about. Each of them necessitated the community’s rejection of one time-honored scientific theory in favor of another incompatible with it. Each produced a consequent shift in the problems available for scientific scrutiny and in the standards by which the profession determined what should count as an admissible problem or as a legitimate problem-solution.
–Thomas S. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962)

Noam Chomsky’s recent reputation as a political polemicist has obscured the fact that another revolution, this one more successful, has been tied to his name.  more>>>