Kavita Krishnan.
In the infamous BBC Newsnight interview, Andrew Mountbatten Windsor [3] was asked if in retrospect, knowing Epstein was a paedophile and sexual predator, he felt any “guilt, regret, or shame” about his friendship with Epstein. No, he said.
The Left icon overlooked sexual violence, much like India’s literary and cultural progressives have embraced a man whose rape conviction was overturned.
I’ve met [all] sorts of people, including major war criminals. I don’t regret having met any of them.
That was public intellectual Noam Chomsky’s belligerent reply in 2023 to a newspaper’s question about his connections to Jeffrey Epstein. [1] More recently, Epstein’s emails reveal a close friendship with Chomsky and his wife. [2]
Of particular interest is a testimonial (undated but written in or after 2017) written by Chomsky for Epstein, in which he describes their friendship of six years as a “valuable” and “rewarding” experience, thanks to Epstein’s intellectual breadth and insights, and says that:
Of particular interest is a testimonial (undated but written in or after 2017) written by Chomsky for Epstein, in which he describes their friendship of six years as a “valuable” and “rewarding” experience, thanks to Epstein’s intellectual breadth and insights, and says that:
Jeffrey has repeatedly been able to arrange, sometimes on the spot, very productive meetings with leading figures in the sciences and mathematics, and global politics, people whose work and activities I had looked into though I had never expected to meet them.
In the infamous BBC Newsnight interview, Andrew Mountbatten Windsor [3] was asked if in retrospect, knowing Epstein was a paedophile and sexual predator, he felt any “guilt, regret, or shame” about his friendship with Epstein. No, he said.
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