Their c orrespondence runs some 10,000 words, but it only amounts to what Harris ultimately calls “an unpleasant and fruitless encounter” that demonstrates the “limits of discourse.” It’s an exchange that Chomsky seemingly preferred to keep private (his permission to print the emails was grudging at best), and Harris saw some virtue in making public. Over the past week, Chomsky and Harris continued the debate, trading emails back and forth. military action and the violence committed by some of America’s historical foes (e.g., the Nazis during WWII and later Al-Qaeda). But, it at least goes back to January, when Harris took Chomsky to task (hear an excerpt of a longer podcast above) for drawing a moral equivalence between U.S.
It’s a little hard to pin down when the dust-up first began. Two years later, Chomsky now finds himself in another fraught exchange - this time, with Sam Harris, author of The End of Faith and Letter to a Christian Nation. In 2013, we documented the acrimonious exchange between Noam Chomsky and Slavoj Žižek, which all started when Chomsky accused Žižek of “posturing–using fancy terms like polysyllables and pretending have a theory when you have no theory whatsoever.” To which Žižek responded: “ Chomsky, … always emphasizes how one has to be empirical, accurate… well I don’t think I know a guy who was so often empirically wrong in his descriptions…” And so it continued.
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