(Jeffrey Epstein (2nd from left) at a dinner he hosted at Harvard, September 2004 with (l-r) professors Alan Dershowitz, Robert Trivers, Lawrence Summers (formerly Secretary of the Treasury and Harvard President) and Stephen Pinker. Photo: Rick Friedman / Alamy)
Through literary agent John Brockman, she was invited to join Edge, which billed itself as a “club of intellectuals,” but became a salon for white men who used their privileged platforms to advance Nazi race science and attack diversity, wokeness, women, and people of color.
“Whatever Edge was supposed to be, it became something sinister,” Heffernan writes in her piece for Nerve. “The salon played yenta to billionaire money and alpha-male minds, and together, over decades, they all converged on a master philosophy: they were apex predators ordained by nature to exploit and subjugate others. This creed allowed the Edge set to steer intellectual history into its current fascist dead-end.”
We’ve known that Epstein wanted to seed the future of humanity through what he considered to be his superior DNA. New Mexico has launched an investigation into Zorro Ranch, where Epstein allegedly trafficked, tortured, and raped these girls, who were part of his genetic experiment. Elon Musk, who is obsessed with saving humanity and the white race, spent the entire month of January tweeting about the need for more white babies and the fear of white replacement. These views are increasingly popular with the broligarchy, which is intimately connected to the Trump Administration.
Unsurprisingly, Epstein was the biggest funder for Edge, which connected scientists and professors, such as Lawrence Krauss, Marvin Minsky, Steve Pinker, and Alan Dershowitz, to billionaires and Silicon Valley bros. who share their regressive worldview that loathed political correctness, multiculturalism, and accountability for rich, powerful men who preyed on girls. This cabal of men spread these hateful ideas under the veneer of Ivy League respectability, TED talks, and lucrative speaking engagements at corporations.
Fringe, hateful ideas were given new life, especially when attached to the right-wing cultural wars and MAGA’s political grift.
In this eye-opening conversation, Virginia connects the dots between Epstein, academia, and intellectual circles, and how this incestuous network shared his racist worldviews and helped launder them to the mainstream.
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