In demonising America, Chomsky has fallen into the same trap as the neocons"We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality – judiciously, as you will – we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors … and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do." Reported in October 2004, this statement from a senior adviser to George W Bush – often attributed to Karl Rove, Bush's deputy cheif of staff until his resignation in 2007 – forms the epigraph to Noam Chomsky's latest collection of articles. Though the context is not ...