The Tom Woods Show, episode 189.

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Hi everybody, Tom Woods here. Gene Epstein is with us once again.

Gene is recently retired from Barron's, the nation's premier financial publication.

He's written an enormous amount over the years, very, very smart and important guy. And we're going to talk today

about Noam Chomsky. We talked a bit about him before in the past with Gene because

Chomsky had a bit of an influence on Gene's own intellectual evolution, but of course not on everything.

So Chomsky, as most of you know, is a linguist and cognitive scientist, but he's better known

to the general public as a historian, a critic, a scholar of American foreign policy, and current

events. And we're going to talk about the good and the bad here with regard to Chomsky with a sympathetic voice, although not completely sympathetic, Gene himself.

Gene, welcome back.

Tom, good to be back and to steal a favorite phase of Lou Rockwells.

Thanks for all you do.

Well, likewise. And I'm interested, I'm really interested in this topic. I'm interested in

Chomsky and his views and his influence on you. It's all great, great stuff. I just read a letter

you wrote to him and we'll be talking a bit about that letter. Apparently, you've had some

correspondence over the years. He's an interesting figure, you know, love him or hate him. Apparently you've had some correspondence over the years. He's an interesting

figure, you know, love him or hate him. Yes. And you can love some things about him and dislike other

things. But before we get into that, let's start with what you're up to over at the Soho Forum,

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