The Professor and the Pariah
How a brilliant mind fell for bad history and worse people.
Michael Cohen
· 7 min read
Epstein Files
A collection of 7 posts
Arrest and Moral Pageantry
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, Mick Jagger, and the theatre of degradation.
Julia Friedman
· 8 min read
I Used to Beat Up Sex Offenders. Now I Question the Mob.
An ex-prisoner reflects on Jeffrey Epstein, the Epstein files, Prince Andrew, and the rise of online conspiracy theories.
Ben Gunn
· 7 min read
The Price of the Epstein Frenzy
Press-led hysteria and institutional cowardice are inflicting needless damage on higher education.
Lawrence M. Krauss
· 10 min read
Epstein Mania on the Digital Borderlands
The longevity of the Epstein story owes less to new facts of criminal conduct than to its symbolic utility in alleging deviancy.
Claire Lehmann
· 6 min read
PODCAST 104: University Fundraiser Peter Cohen on Jeffrey Epstein, the Scandal at MIT, and Ronan Farrow’s Flawed Journalism
Peter Cohen, a university fundraiser, talks about the Jeffrey Epstein scandal, its impact on MIT, and Ronan Farrow’s flawed reporting. He recently wrote about all of the above for Quillette.
Quillette, Peter Cohen
· 1 min read
Jeffrey Epstein and All the Others: An Explainer
Epstein’s crimes present an opportunity to consider larger historical, anthropological, cultural lessons about the seemingly endless, whack-a-mole reappearance of men with his obsessions.
Kay Hymowitz
· 9 min read