The Epstein files as a reckoning with power, complicity, and the banality of elite evil

    Dr. Richard Ikiebe | YSOT | Jun 09, 2026    
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Too often, we the media elite - journalists, writers, intellectuals - behave as though we inhabit a different moral planet. The Good Book instructs that he who is without sin cast the first stone. I write on a human problem that touches all of us, more visibly manifest in some than others. I have not come with a sack of stones. I arrive, equally humbled, at the feet of a question we must answer together: what does the Epstein scandal reveal about the nature of power, and the nature of us all?

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