Sunday, February 08, 2026

Only in the New Yorker

I'm going to write a book of quotes called, "Only in the New Yorker." Here's the first entry:

"Jeffrey Epstein wasn’t a writer, obviously: his voluminous e-mails and other files...are littered with misspellings and grammatical errors."

"Jeffrey Epstein’s Bonfire of the Élites," by John Cassidy, New Yorker Magazine, 2/9/26
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