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Jeffrey Epstein’s Intellectual Enabler | The New Republic

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How did Epstein meet so many luminaries in the worlds of science and technology? It all might trace back to literary agent John Brockman.

If you are an accomplished science or technology writer, your books are probably handled by the most powerful literary agency in the field: the famous Brockman Inc., started by John Brockman and now run by Max Brockman, his son. As it happens, Max is also my agent—and has been since my first book was sold in 2009. As agencies go, I only have positive things to report: The Brockmans fight for their authors and get us very handsome advances. That’s what agents are for. But that’s not the whole story. John is also the president, founder, and chief impresario of the Edge Foundation, which has earn

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