Commentary Part of the astonishing power of Noam Chomsky’s 1967 essay “The Responsibility of Intellectuals” (New York Review of Books) was his courage to name names of top intellectuals who enlisted their main talents in service of ruling-class duplicity and social destruction at the hands of the Garrison State. I’m not going to do that, though many of us have been keeping documents for two years that chronicle the intellectuals who have been apologists for the most dramatic expansion of exploitative power in our lifetimes, one that has threatened to kick off a new dark age. The time for naming names—and perhaps it is not necessary—is not yet. Still, let’s reflect on Chomsky’s method. Here were half a dozen of America’s best and brightest, the people daily interviewed on TV, the minds quoted in the media, the people given the grants and the awards, the celebrated geniuses of the age. …