Cody Godwin

How do you respond to them?

Do you think the Department of Justice will ultimately release more files from the Epstein investigation?

And what more can the public learn from them?

When the Me Too movement originally started 20 years ago, it was created in part to force accountability.

But you wrote that, quote, the liberal reform that hashtag Me Too produced were not up to that structural task, end quote.

What did you mean?

You found that in some places, reporting of sexual violence went up after Hashtag Me Too, but prosecutions didn't follow.

What does that gap tell us about the limits of reform?

Will there ever be a full accounting of Jeffrey Epstein's associates?

And if so, what would need to happen to bring this about?

Towards the end of your piece, you suggest this isn't just a legal problem, it's cultural.

What are the deeper forces that shape who we believe?

And importantly, how do we change them to help bring about accountability?

If you're interested in reading more about this issue, we have a link to Claire's op-ed in the show description.

Claire, thank you for coming on The Excerpt.

Thanks so much for having me.

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