Chomsky – The Machine, the Ghost and the Limits of Understanding (2012) [video]
I don&#x27;t like Chomsky in his main area of expertise of Linguistics. My post-grad work was in NLP, embedded within a linguistics department, and requiring a heavy background in formal linguistics. A fair number of faculty, while appreciative of his contributions to the field, held him in low regard because he &amp; some of his main &quot;acolytes&quot; systematically worked to block any researchers in the U.S. working on ideas that ran counter to his own. Meaning more than a generation or more of advancement has stagnated in the US. Advancement in syntactic theory (his main contribution to linguistics) has tended to come from outside the US.<p>It&#x27;s possible this has changed somewhat since my formal education, but it was the status quo for quite some time.