All Jeffrey Epstein’s Friends
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There is a certain sort of affectation that many intellectuals are prone to. If I am an intellectual, they reason (and reasoning is one of the things intellectuals do), then I must have Great Thoughts. And if I have Great Thoughts, I must share them with others so that I am a Public Intellectual, to be held up to the masses as someone to emulate.
I’ve run into The Edge at various times, usually when someone links to something there.
To arrive at the edge of the world’s knowledge, seek out the most complex and sophisticated minds, put them in a room together, and have them ask each other the questions they are asking themselves.
The front page today carries a memorial to John Tooby, called the father of evolutionary psychology. I won’t open that can of worms right now. In looking up Tooby, I found a similar site to The Edge, Nautilus. What enterprises like this have in common is that they Ask The Big Questions. Nautilus stays closer to science, but The Edge has Billionaires’ Dinners, where billionaires, who must be Big Thinkers, ask each other Big Questions.
The Edge is in the news today because David Brooks is in some of the photos the House Democrats released today of Jeffrey Epstein, which seem to be from one of the Billionaires’ Dinners. Last month, Brooks wrote a column saying that we’re making too much of Jeffrey Epstein.
The dinner was after Epstein had been released from prison for child sexual abuse. That evidently was not enough to disqualify him from The Edge’s coterie, which of course includes college professors. Consider how many contribute to The Question of The Year. The last Question was posted in 2018. The last Billionaires’ Dinner was in 2015. Other events seem not to go past 2019. It looks to me like we might want to know more about The Edge.
Capitolhunters is taking some time off from pursuing January 6 issues to look at these dinners. This post is the first of a thread.
We’ve heard very little of the professors and other public intellectuals who interacted with Jeffrey Epstein. Their tolerance or active acceptance of him is consistent with an underlying misogyny in academia. By the time of The Edge dinner, there was no doubt about Epstein’s activities.
Update: Looks like Bari Weiss thinks the same way as The Edge.
