Posted on 02/18/2026 4:40:15 AM PST by MtnClimber
In 2023, newly disclosed documents related to the late financier Jeffrey Epstein revealed meetings and financial interactions between Epstein and the eminent linguist and public intellectual Noam Chomsky. The disclosures did not accuse Chomsky of criminal conduct. But they confirmed that, years after Epstein’s 2008 conviction for soliciting a minor, Chomsky met with him multiple times and discussed financial matters.
Chomsky’s response was characteristically blunt: his meetings with Epstein, he said, were “none of your business.” The tone may have been legally defensible. Culturally and symbolically, it was something else.
Because Chomsky is not merely a professor emeritus at MIT. For over half a century, he has been one of the central intellectual pillars of the American Left — a figure whose authority extends far beyond linguistics into foreign policy, media criticism, and moral judgment on American power. His 1988 book Manufacturing Consent shaped generations of students’ understanding of media, propaganda, and elite influence. To admirers, he has represented intellectual courage against empire; to critics, an implacable critic of Western liberal democracies.
But in either case, he has stood as a moral voice.
And that is precisely why the Epstein association matters — not as a criminal allegation, but as a symbolic rupture.
From the 1960s to Cultural Hegemony
To understand the magnitude of that rupture, one must place Chomsky within the broader intellectual ecosystem that reshaped American academia after the 1960s. While not formally a member of the Frankfurt School, his work converged with its critique of capitalist modernity, mass culture, and liberal-democratic institutions. Thinkers such as Herbert Marcuse and Theodor Adorno helped institutionalize a style of critical theory that viewed Western society as structurally oppressive beneath its democratic veneer.
Overlay that with the influence of Antonio Gramsci and his theory of cultural hegemony: the idea that ruling classes maintain
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It is clear that Epstein was a man of the left. He had no principles or conscience.
Had to study Chomsky to get a Teaching Certificate.
Lot of happy horseshit and convoluted thinking.
May be part of the reason our teachers are often perverts and losers.
If you go through his guest list it’s so heavily weighted to the left that those on the right are mere tokens.
All else being the same, it must be cool to have a business card that says “Public Intellectual.”
Chomsky is, and always has been, a pompous, gas filled, far Leftist POS.
Of course he would have dealings with Epstein.
That sucks. Having that BS shoveled down your throat against your will. I read one of Chomsky’s books many years ago, and that was all I needed to take his full measure. A total Leftist douchecanoe.
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No. An objective view of reality has done that.
Chomsky was always the “do as I say, not as I do” type.
they claimed to be gods, because they said there was no God.
“14 For this God is our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide even unto death.”Psalm 48
Inside trader, influence peddler, filthy rich pecker puss Pelosi is an excellent example of the hypocrisy of the left. She pretended to be the good Catholic who legislated “for the children” while enriching herself like the pig.
Chomsky is as evil as Epstein
Not Trump, the left doesn’t care.
Title looks like something written as a doctoral dissertation. I believe I’ll pass.
Not many people have the honor of having a chimpanzee named after them. In his case, Nim Chimpsky.
No. An objective view of reality has done that.
Bravo! Succinctly put!
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