Documents released about Jeffrey Epstein have indicated that Noam Chomsky had deeper ties with the convicted sex offender than was previously known.

Society / Chomsky has often suffered fools, knaves, and criminals too lightly. Epstein was one of them. But that doesn’t mean Chomsky was part of the “Epstein class.” Greg Grandin Over his long life,

Chomsky is 97 years old and recovering from a stroke. He cannot defend himself in this moment. It falls to those of us who understand his contributions, and who refuse to participate in guilt-by-association politics,

I think his ideas and arguments are still worth grappling with as one tries to make sense of this ever stranger world.

With Jeffrey Epstein’s reputation in tatters following a 2018 Miami Herald investigation into his sex crimes – and how he evaded serious consequences – the financier hit on a plan: He would produce a documentary to present himself in a favorable light.