Noam Chomsky has a long-standing reputation for being the conscience of the American left. As Norman Finkelstein once put it, he is its (for some of us, our) “philosopher king”. Or perhaps it should be he “had” that reputation. Though there is no suggestion that Chomsky was involved in anything criminal or sordid with regards to Jeffrey Epstein, the latest stunning and intimate revelations about his relationship with the paedophile-financier betray a grave moral miscalculation. The taint on Chomsky’s reputation may never disappear. The email from Chomsky to Epstein that stood out in the most recent cache of released documents...