"Chris Knight has done the intellectual world a favour by exploring, with a critical and comprehending eye, the twists and turns of the thought of Noam Chomsky, surely one of the most important intellectuals of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Anyone who wants to understand the political and intellectual development of ideas that have dramatically altered modern science and political activism should read this book. We already have a plethora of hagiographies of Chomsky. This more critical examination of the two domains of Chomsky's thought and sources of his fame is unusual in its insight and in its frankness in "telling it like it is". Reading this book, I now better understand Chomsky's fame in terms of the zeitgeist which he rode so well to the zenith of the intellectual world. I strongly recommend Decoding Chomsky to anyone interested in the intellectual history of the last seventy years."–Daniel L. Everett, author of Language: The Cultural Tool –Daniel Everett
