This is not to say an explicit commitment to certain values should be avoided. Far from it. Clear articulation of this commitment, which is never absent, is a prerequisite of objectivity. I do not believe in the existence of ‘radical scholarship’ as a separate category. Rather, it seems to me that a search for objectivity carried out within the framework of decent values will lead to ‘radical’ conclusions. — Noam Chomsky, An Exchange on Liberal Scholarship 1969