8 764 disc noam chomsky life dissent read robert f barsky reply postal pullum comments feargul murphy review barsky book found odd say least three quarters barsky reply deal postal pullum comments murphy review linguist review pullum nature barsky book understand barsky feels need defend pullum would nt says simply irrelevant issue hand postal pullum wrote reply murphy barsky even granting welcome opportunity barsky reply pullum nature review see justification fact reply deals almost exclusively chomsky nonlinguistic activities issue pp reply murphy pp concerned take inaccuracies spread murphy barsky one specific issue politics mit linguistics department certain point history pp mention chomsky nonacademic political activities briefly insofar relevant chomsky linguist concern murphy strangely irrelevant remark chomsky time simply busy issues like vietnam war understand remark quoted pp paraphrasing barsky insinuating one ought criticize chomsky academic politics someone courage speak vietnam war anything goes following comment barsky summarizes tone tenor entire reply pullum seems want tell us think argument lowlevel denigration reminds presidential debates quote barsky extremely unnerving knud lambrecht department french italian university texas austin