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Noam Chomsky has been a central figure on the American left for over five decades. His New York Review Of Books article from 1967, “The Responsibility of Intellectuals,” was called “the single most important piece of anti-war literature” from the Vietnam period. That helped launch him on a course to being “the most widely-read American voice on foreign policy on the planet,” as the New York Times described three and a half decades later, in 2004. ​ Chomsky’s academic field is linguistics, where he’s won numerous prizes for work developing theories like universal grammar, b...

December 21, 2006 Even Borat, the bumblingly anti-Semitic comic character, could not have contrived a more absurd and utterly offensive assemblage: David Duke, erstwhile Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, alongside Robert Faurisson, the French pseudo-academic who argues that the Holocaust never happened, accompanied for dramatic effect by a group of ultra-Orthodox Jews whose anti-Zionist fanaticism motivates them to desecrate the memory of millions of murdered Jews.

To free speech absolutists, it comes down to a simple choice: you are either for free speech or you are not. But what about other forms of censorship or consequences for expressing offensive ideas? As Chomsky once stated in a C-SPAN interview, “I’m personally very skeptical of any form of regulation of any kind of speech.” In America’s raging culture wars, however, it is increasingly difficult to embrace free speech absolutism. Congressional pressure is mounting on social media platforms to police offensive content and deplatform individuals who break the platforms’ rules against di...

In the wake of the attack on the Capitol, I searched for analogies. I thought about the French far right in 1934, and I thought about France in 1945, when the newly liberated country tried to purge itself of its Nazi collaborators. Between the two events was one figure who can illuminate our present moment: the French fascist writer Robert Brasillach (1909-1945). Brasillach, a newspaperman and writer of fiction and essays, wrote lovingly about Nazi rallies; he denounced and ridiculed Jews who were in danger; and he encouraged the sentimental support of National Socialism. In occupied Paris, ...