This “revival” of Noam Chomsky in a certain corner of the hive mind is fairly inexplicable to someone who lived through the same era. It’s a kindness bestowed

This “revival” of Noam Chomsky in a certain corner of the hive mind is fairly inexplicable to someone who lived through the same era. It’s a kindness bestowed on him by a few students so in his dying days he believes he didn’t totally fade into dust, but outside of that very small circle of fellow travelers, who cares? Haven’t heard him cited in about 40 years. Are they trying to set him up as an anti-Ayn Rand? And why preserve Ayn Rand’s memory? Puzzled.