Ezra Klein

Yeah.

Yeah.

So I'm going to say The Secret History by Donna Tartt, which is just fantastic classic.

You're such a feminist.

Thank you for thinking of us.

At the end of January, Trump's Department of Justice released what it said was the last tranche of Epstein files.

Millions of emails and texts, FBI documents and court records.

It's just a huge dump of information.

Journalists, investigators, and the public are sifting through them as we speak.

What's amazing, though, is how much we just still don't know, or at least don't know yet.

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanch, who before he joined the DOJ was Trump's personal lawyer...

has said that investigators identified 6 million potentially responsive pages, but they released only about 3.5 million pages to the public.

So what's in the 2.5 million pages we haven't seen?

Representatives Ro Khanna and Thomas Massey, who co-sponsored the House legislation that mandated the files release, have argued that the DOJ is engaged in a cover-up and is using redactions to protect powerful men who may have committed crimes.

So we are still far from the end of the story.

We're still far from knowing much of what we want to know inside the story.

But what has come into clear view is the incredible breadth of Epstein's network, the huge range of people who relied on him, communicated with him, traded with him, and the role he played in this network.

the role he played among the American elite, as a broker of information, connections, wealth, and ultimately human beings.

This is what I think the files, along with a lot of amazing reporting and courageous testimony, have at least begun to answer.

Where Epstein's mysterious power came from.