indignation endowing the idiot with dignity

I like that.

I encourage anybody to go to Amazon and read an excerpt from any of her books.

Her prose is cumbersome and overworked. The literary equivalent of turning paint into mud by not knowing when to stop.

Bleah.

Here's Wolfe on Chomsky:

"Having the faintest notion of what you were talking about was irrelevent. Any scholar or scientist who merely possessed profound knowledge in his own field did not qualify as an intellectual.

"The prime example was Chomsky, a brilliant linguist who figured out that language is a structure built into the central nervous system of Homo sapiens. But Chomsky was not known as an intellectual until he denounced the Vietnam War, something he knew absolutely nothing about - thereby qualifying for his new eminence."