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It came as a shock to many to discover that the prominent US philosopher and political activist Noam Chomsky was also within convicted child-sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s slowly surfacing circle of confidantes.
Since he shot into the public eye with his trenchant opposition to the Vietnam war in the 1960s, Chomsky has been one of the most trenchant critics of US neo-imperialism and its unaccountable elite.
As a consequence, many of his admirers struggled to understand how Chomsky had also been friends for over a decade with Epstein – a relationship whose contours became clear with the recent release by US authorities of an enormous stash of emails, videos and other material detailing the sex offender’s activities and the extent of his social networks.
The so-called Epstein Files show that Chomsky had sought Epstein’s advice on financial matters. The activist, on his part, had offered Epstein counsel on handling the “putrid” allegations against him.
In light of this, some are asking how Chomsky’s ideas are to be judged. Chomsky suffered a stroke in 2023 and has been unable to address these revelations himself. Epstein was found dead in his jail cell in 2019.
However, both those who believe Chomsky’s intellectual legacy is unshaken, as well as those who now question it would...