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No, Chomsky's politics aren't "America bad"

Noah Smith continues his quixotic bid to say a single literate thing about foreign policy.

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Carl Beijer
Jun 20, 2024
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Liberal blogger Noah Smith, on Noam Chomsky:

Chomsky’s north star as a foreign policy thinker — his fixed belief, around which all of his other beliefs revolved, and to whose contours they were forced to mold themselves — was that America is an Evil Empire bent on world domination.

I can think of no better proof of one’s ignorance about Chomsky and his c…

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