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  "textContent": "Declassified documents belonging to the disgraced financier have given wings to a conspiracy theory that’s been explored in ‘Eyes Wide Shut’ and by QAnon alike:  does one do evil simply because one can?",
  "title": "‘Great men are almost always bad men’: The Epstein files and the appeal of stories about depraved elites"
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