Read the article above. There is a link at the top of this submission to an essay by Peter Norvig, arguing (correctly, in retrospect) that Chomsky's approach to language modelling is mistaken.

His russian imperialism support and his broad rejection of the eastern european civilian uprising against the communist project. Like many idealists he took a utopian, idealizing view and ran with it reality and real suffering caused be damned. Like many idealists he offered basically a API for sociopaths to be hijacked and used as a useful idiot against humanity. This way predictable leads to ruin and ashes as legacy and it did so for him. The epstein connection is just the cherry on top.