Chris had to write this to work out what connected his science and his politics in complete contradiction. Only then could he start on his latest work on 'The Revolutionary Origins of Language' (Yale UP, due late 2026, with Jerome Lewis)
Here's a free download of Chris' excellent book:
https://z-lib.gl/book/4999344/4bdcce/decoding-chomsky-science-and-revolutionary-politics.html
Chris writes: 'Some... blamed his behaviour on a blindness... to gender issues and.. problems of sexual violence' referring to the horrible email on 'the hysteria that has developed about abuse of women'. And we remember the peculiar historic association, from the classical Greek, of women's wombs with the word 'hysteria'.
Chomsky's politics always lacked a sex/gender component and so does his thinking on the emergence of language. His Cartesian 2nd Cognitive Revolution in linguistics celebrated Mind over matter, with the body completely subsumed.
Two or more generations of left activists have grown up reading Noam #Chomsky's fearless exposure of the US imperium. Many now feel shattered, duped, and bewildered by the revelations of the extent of his relationship with #Epstein. Chris Knight explains what lies behind this extraordinary paradox, the Two Chomskys
https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/02/06/the-chomsky-epstein-puzzle/
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Just read a brutal Garbage Day deep-dive: it argues that Jeffrey #Epstein wasn’t just a predator—he was plugged into the early scaffolding of 4chan’s /pol/, feeding an ecosystem that later synced with #SteveBannon's dream of turning Europe into a far-right playground. The piece also traces Russia threads through Ghislaine Maxwell’s father, Robert Maxwell, and the KGB. None of this makes the internet look organic; it looks engineered by creeps with money and state friends
https://www.garbageday.email/p/here-s-how-epstein-broke-the-internet
Just read a brutal Garbage Day deep-dive: it argues that Jeffrey #Epstein wasn’t just a predator—he was plugged into the early scaffolding of 4chan’s /pol/, feeding an ecosystem that later synced with #SteveBannon's dream of turning Europe into a far-right playground. The piece also traces Russia threads through Ghislaine Maxwell’s father, Robert Maxwell, and the KGB. None of this makes the internet look organic; it looks engineered by creeps with money and state friends
https://www.garbageday.email/p/here-s-how-epstein-broke-the-internet
New DOJ dump shows #Chomsky emailing Jeffrey fucking #Epstein in 2019 telling him to ignore the heat and calling it “hysteria… about the abuse of women.” Reminder: Epstein had already pled guilty in 2008. The “where there’s smoke there’s fire” take… from Noam? Christ.
Source: https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA01032534.pdf
