From Epstein to Gas Prices: How the Pump May Finish What Conscience Could Not

In a morally serious country, the Epstein matter would already have been enough. It would have been enough to trigger public revulsion, elite panic, prosecutorial urgency, and a sustained demand for truth. A society with functioning civic reflexes would not need a second injury to awaken itself to the first. It would not wait for the price of fuel to rise before deciding that the protection of…