"Objectivity and Liberal Scholarship" is an essay by the American academic Noam Chomsky.

[4] In "Objectivity and Liberal Scholarship" Noam Chomsky argues that, during the Vietnam War, the liberal intelligentsia provided self-serving arguments in their discussion and analysis of the war, instead of objectively discussing the topic; that they used ideology to legitimize U.S. commitments to autocratic rule and intervention in Asia.

As an additional example to the Vietnam War, Noam Chomsky looks at liberal scholarship which covered the Spanish Civil War in which the same lack of objectivity and the same counter-revolutionary subordination can be seen.

Part I focuses on the Vietnam War and the increasing role of intellectuals, or specialists, in government and public and foreign policy.

He contrasts the liberal-communist version of the war with that of other sources including anarchists' and first-hand accounts.