Fans of Noam Chomsky are frothing at the mouth, calling for a boycott of Lagunitas IPA Beer for featuring Michel Foucault on its bottles. The "sudsy skirmish" is a tongue-in-cheek reference to the famous Chomsky-Foucault debate of 1971, leading to a battle of the brews that has some academics hopping mad. With critics contending that the beer has "no inherent nature," and rumors of a rival "Chomskyan Cherry Stout," the heady climax of this brewing controversy leaves readers pondering the profound connection between beer and the nature of humanity, all served up with a side of linguistic lagers and philosophical puns.
