Since the Trump administration released over three million documents from the Jeffrey Epstein case file on January 30, the scandal has continued to unsettle public opinion. All eyes have turned to the New York financier who ran an international network of sex trafficking and child sexual abuse.
Marc Crépon, professor of philosophy at the Ecole Normale Supérieure, analyzes how this sexual abuse scandal has put our society to the test. The director of research at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) has written numerous books on violence, including Le Consentement meurtrier (Murderous Consent). After the writer Gabriel Matzneff was accused of raping minors, he published Ces temps-ci. la société à l'épreuve des affaires de mœurs ("These Times: Society Put to the Test by Sexual Scandals"), an essay in which he examines the extent of society's past complacency in the face of such sexual violence.
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In what way is the Epstein scandal a test for our societies?
