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5. The Epstein class's secret weapon
These super-elites practiced a kind of solidarity, elevating shared interests over clashing beliefs. Can we learn from that?
Apr 22
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1. Epstein's network of bystanders
In the first chapter of our Epstein Class series, we dig into the elite culture that enabled so much abuse: obsessive network maintenance, "optionality…
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2. Never eat with women
In chapter two of our Epstein Class series, we examine a strange absence in the photographic record -- and the greatest fear of the men in Epstein's…
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How to live under Trump II
Jan 7, 2025
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Lina Khan on how the Epstein class hates being told no, whether in private or public life
Mar 2
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The opposite of fascism
Mar 19, 2025
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2. Never eat with women
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We are falling on our face because we are jumping high
Jan 15, 2021
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ESSAY: Home of the brave? Really?
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My editor and I (me?)
Today my legendary book editor, Jon Segal, turns 80. Or, as he would put it, "eighty"
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NOTEBOOK: A musical act for the thinking
Plus: A new "reading room" for the Epstein files, a book that finally solved a major family problem, and taxing billionaires
May 11
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Epstein, Trump, and Tocqueville
I joined Joanna Coles for another wide-ranging conversation on the meaning of the Epstein case
May 11
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War, billionaires, and economists -- what are they good for?
A conversation with Justin Wolfers, great demystifier of the economy
May 8
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Toni Morrison wanted to keep Confederate statues -- and put nooses on their necks
What would the great American writer have made of cancel culture and other visions of "erasure"? We asked Namwali Serpell -- novelist, Harvard scholar…
May 7
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BOOK CLUB: Announcing our May selection
Novelist and Harvard professor Namwali Serpell's "On Morrison" is our latest Ink Book Club pick. Join us for a live discussion with the author on…
May 3
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How to crush Trumpism
My conversation with Kat Abughazaleh about the Democrats, persuasion, and a radical new approach to beating fascism
May 1
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The desperate theory running America
Ibram X. Kendi, author of "Chain of Ideas," on the ideological underpinning of this moment -- and how to fight back
Apr 30
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RIFFS: Other numbers Trump might ban
Why stop at 86 and 47?
Apr 30
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