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Alfie Kohn (alfiekohn@sciences.social)'s status on Friday, 20-Feb-2026 03:02:00 JST Alfie Kohn

One of the best pieces I've seen about Epstein - how he, like Trump was a depraved con man whom the elite (in academia, business, and politics) not only lacked the courage to denounce but actively cozied up to and whose evil they thereby encouraged: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-anand-giridharadas.html?unlocked_article_code=1.NVA.M7Ba.LRi6Yx-xpe0k&smid=url-share
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1. And I really want to stress this: They're not just failing to vet someone properly. They're befriending him or sustaining friendships with him, they're allowing him to give to their university, they're allowing him into these worlds, enabled future predation. This was not only about what had happened before that. So a lot of them who had prestige to spare — these universities that take money from dodgy people and then they give them the glow of the university — they were kind of selling him these reputation-laundering services that weren't just about getting the reputational stink off him. Getting the reputational stink off made it easier for him to move through the world and do it again and do it more. This was not about an earlier phase of criminality and then some reputational cleansing after. The reputational cleanse allowed this to keep going.
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