Epstein Secrets

nt of the student council and captain of the debate team. Reading became my passion: literature (Dostoyevski, Shakespeare, Bellow); philosophy (Kant, Aristotle, Plato, Neitsche; history ( ) and politics ( ). Lloved arguing with my professors. One of my favorites was John Hope Franklin, the first African Amer

fferent venue, over the strong objections of the Chief Justice of the State, who was one of the sponsors to the dinner. I had a similar experience in Columbus, Ohio, after I argued an important case on behalf of a local law firm. They invited my female associate and me to have dinner with them at the local

an when he was 60 years old. He’d had an astonishing life until then, of course. He’d been taught by Socrates and, in turn, had sharpened the mind of Aristotle. He’d established his famous Academy in Athens. The puzzles of philosophy and politics that defined his city’s most turbulent era had been the work o

modern power apparatus. You could, if you wanted, compare the New Caste a bit to an earlier generation of empire-deciding figures: Ocean explorers. Columbus, de Gama, Magellan. Backed by a primitive version of venture capital, the “risk finance” of trading houses, these discovery captains had a hunger to

in the same sense as Galileo, if by this term one describes those who tear down the dictates of the authorities who came before, as Galileo had for Aristotle. Einstein did just the opposite. He knew that rules that had been established on the basis of experiment could not easily be tossed aside, and it w

k in a bar before departing to find the New World by claiming he could balance an egg upright on top of the bar. After the barman accepted the bet, Columbus broke the tip off the egg and placed it easily upright on the counter. He never mentioned not cracking it, after all. Einstein's resolution of the