Ross Douthat

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293 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Dec 2025 last heard 2 Dec

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The Ezra Klein Show · Interesting Times: She Exposed Epstein and Shares MAGA’s Anger · 2 Dec 2025 podcast

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help me? matched

Jeffrey Epstein, right? matched

he would sort of come through with these things. matched

But as far as we know from the public record, we're just trying to get at what we know to be the truth. matched

His primary mechanism of getting rich was his connection to Wexner. matched

And by the late 1990s, he is sort of building out matched

a playboy intellectual lifestyle, matched

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of describe the lifestyle that Epstein has? matched

him. matched

Do you know what his specific scientific interests were or specific projects he was interested in? matched

And the story, one of the stories that I've read is that he had, you know, sort of transhumanist ideas, but also there were people who would say, oh, he wanted to seed his genetic lineage right matched

the future, sort of not in the same style as Elon Musk and his many children, but with a similar effect, right, that he sort of imagined many children in the future. matched

But we can say – I mean, as you said already, it's pretty straightforward why scientists and intellectuals were interested in hanging out with Jeffrey Epstein. matched

Initially, it's because he was rich and was willing to fund and donate to universities and donate to research and so on. matched

So that itself is not a special mystery. matched

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