Interesting that you choose to remark on Chomsky's political views rather than the fact that he is one of the most influential (and highly cited) academics in modern history.

He's also notorious in linguistics for heckling anyone who proposes an approach other than universal generative grammar.

I’m pretty neutral on Chomsky’s politics. I’m only pointing out that he is controversial as any good liberal arts professor should be.

That being said, his LAD and UG theories have mostly not been useful, as we’ve seen to have done better with....ML (ironically enough).

Last year he took a position at Arizona.

He is still an emeritus professor at MIT.