No, this has nothing to do with his political views. Chomsky's work is still seen as something of a foundation of modern linguistics and it's still taught in b

No, this has nothing to do with his political views. Chomsky's work is still seen as something of a foundation of modern linguistics and it's still taught in basic classes at university. It's also been very seminal in that it's brought about a vast array of models and theories that build upon it, including modern models such as the various phrase structure grammars (HPSG for instance). However, the world of linguistics has changed quite a bit since the 1960s and through areas such as NLP and statistical models in particular we have a far better understanding of the building blocks of human language. Chomsky appears to be somewhat desperately trying to keep up with these changes and accommodate them in his models, which in turn have grown vastly more complex over the years compared with his original simple and elegant x' theory. In recent years, he also comes across as quite stubborn regarding his rejection of statistic models and machine learning.