Un-Diplomatic

Un-Diplomatic

Edward Said v. Larry Summers and Jeffrey Epstein

Un-Diplomatic
Nov 13, 2025
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About a year and a half ago, I wrote about how Larry Summers—the Democratic Party’s Henry Kissinger of economic policy—embodied everything that was wrong with Washington. He represented one way of performing the role of the public intellectual—an elite, harm-proliferating, self-dealing way—and it was in every meaningful sense the opposite of what Edward…

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