JM: What is the relationship between – I know you've been asked this several times (including by me), and you as often have for various reasons dodged the question –

NC: . . . then I'll dodge it again; because I'm sure that the reasons still hold . . .

JM: Well, I'll try anyway: what is the relationship between your linguistic work and your political work?

NC: Well, it's principled, but it's weak . . .

JM: You've said that there's no deep intellectual connection; I've always read that as saying that there's no way of deducing . . .

NC: . . . there's no deductive connection. You could take any view on either of these topics, and it wouldn't be inconsistent to hold them . . . You know the line, and I don't have to repeat it. There's some point at which a commitment to human freedom enters into both. But you can't do much with that in itself.