Why #academia loves the #pedophilic #corporate #elite, by @HeerJeet in The Nation: 1/5
"It's easy enough to guess why Harvard bigwigs like
Summers hugged Epstein so tightly. The modern
neoliberal university is a shark that must constantly
consume donations in order to stay alive. 2/5
Epstein in particular had a strong affinity for
evolutionary psychology-a speculative field that often
seems to boil down to a defense of existing social
hierarchies as embodiments of nature. 3/5
Epstein believed that he lived in the best of all possible
worlds because people of merit like himself rose to the
top. At Harvard and other top schools, he found all too
many people who were willing to flatter this absurd
exaltation of existing inequality. 4/5
The truly distressing fact is they did so not just because he signed large checks but also because this is what they sincerely believe.' 5/5

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