Contents -- Preface -- I Dissent -- 1 The Chomsky Effect Within and Beyond the Ivory Tower -- 2 Resisting and Reviling the Chomsky Effect -- 3 Effective Precursors: Anarchists, Cartesians, Liberals, and the Radical Left -- II Milieus -- 4 Just Effects: Chomsky on Law, Ethics, and Human Rights -- 5 Effective Teaching: From Catalyst to Institute Professor -- 6 Obfuscating the Chomsky Effect: Media, Propaganda, and Postmodern Language Studies -- 7 Literature, Humor, and the Effects of Creative Discourses -- 8 The Effective "Public" Intellectual -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.