| Between the wild Olivia Nuzzi/Ryan Lizza drama and a new trove of Jeffrey Epstein emails, there has been a lot for the media to chew on… Among the names newly uncovered in Epstein’s archive is Larry Summers, former treasury secretary, president of Harvard, and head of the National Economic Council, and a longtime pal of Epstein’s. The emails showed the two yukking it up until the day before Epstein was arrested for sex trafficking in 2019. “Why does Larry Summers still have a job?” Elie Mystal asked earlier this week. An excellent question. (Reader: shortly after this information came out, Summers resigned from the board of OpenAI, stepped back from his Harvard teaching roles, and said he’ll be curtailing his “public commitments.”)
Is that the only question we should be asking, though? As Chris Lehmann wondered this week, what happens if and when the full pile of “Epstein Files” drops? He suggests that “the next wave of documents won’t prove the absence of a legal case,” as Trump claims, but rather “will likely remind us of the many untouchable predators out there who remain above the law.”
What else? A new book asks a question that’s been on all of our minds: Can we blame private equity for everything? Not exactly, Brett Christophers argues in his review of Megan Greenwell’s book, Bad Company. “What Greenwell actually reaffirms is a kind of bog-standard point about how business is done in America,” he writes. “Because, of course, it wasn’t just private equity that took Friedman’s gospel to heart. Capital at large did.”
-Alana Pockros
Associate Editor, The Nation |
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