Jeffrey Epstein’s Death and Our Age of Conspiracy Theories
Posted on AllSides August 14th, 2019
From The Right
OPINION
One tragedy of the billionaire sex offender’s death is that it will make it harder to argue against the paranoia that is increasingly consuming our politics.
Anyone who’s watched a courtroom TV drama has heard the phrase “Hard cases make bad law.” It’s a legal maxim that says really extreme — i.e., rare or weird — cases are not only hard to generalize from, they’re also a bad foundation for new legislation or policy.
This also happens to be a good rule of thumb in life. Imagine if you...
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