MAKE IT MAKE SENSE: American exceptionalism?
The latest Epstein e-mails expose a global scandal -- can they finally force a reckoning?
In today’s letter: The Epstein files exposed a world of shadowy deal-making, horrifying abuse, and plans for world domination. But the latest e-mail revelations reveal how the operation worked — will his co-conspirators finally have to pay for what they’ve done?
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The Jeffrey Epstein story is a uniquely American one, right? A man born to modest means makes good, becoming unbelievably wealthy and powerful through hard work?
A fiction, of course, the hard work being influence peddling, sex trafficking, perhaps a little light treason.
But it’s also a very global scandal. And one relationship within Epstein’s worldwide web provides the clearest view of how Epstein’s operation worked, the sheer scope of it, and just how damaging it was for the rest of us, everywhere in the world.