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Jan. 13, 2026

Epstein's victims deserve more than document dumps and political theater

Jeffrey Epstein exploited more than 1,000 victims, according to a 2025 DOJ review. But like Shakespeare's Ophelia, they're heard only as noise--managed as disturbances rather than voices demanding justice.

Robert L. Bastian Jr.

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Epstein's victims deserve more than document dumps and political theater
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When Ophelia appears on stage in her madness, the court in Hamlet is already alert to the danger she poses. Her songs scatter veiled fragments about an unburied father, broken vows, sexual betrayal and violence by men who will never be called to account--in King Claudius' words, "dangerous strewments," capable of stir...

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