Anand Giridharadas

I mean, there's this incredible meme about, you know, all the people who didn't meet Epstein.

Right?

Yeah.

There's not a lot of people of color in these revelations.

Three million documents?

Right?

For obvious reasons, there's not a lot of women, although there are some, like Kathy Rumler.

A lot of people went into that house or met him at a party and were like, no thanks.

We forget that.

We forget it because they didn't end up in the files.

But that guy was out and about.

A lot of people whose names you and I don't know had the judgment that

saw photos of underage girls lining his walls, as Virginia Giuffre describes it, and were like, this ain't right.

Different levels of things were known to different people, but none of it was a deal-breaker to many of these people we're talking about.

I think that's right, and it's an important point to dwell on for a second, right?

Because I think, you know, you could take a narrow view that...

Only the people who are actively involved in crimes of pedophilia here are really this group of people we should focus on, and everything else is a distraction.

You could take the opposite view that this is an indictment of, like, every person with more than $10 million in the bank, right?

I think both of those are incorrect.

I believe in this notion, and I've seen it in so many forms in the course of my years of reporting, of what I think about as concentric circles of enablement.