Lord Acton did not write his famous line for decoration. He wrote to judge. He wrote to warn. “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” He aimed it at popes. He meant it for anyone who claims authority. No one gets a pass. Not even a man in white robes. Power deserves scrutiny. Not reverence. And it can get to the best of us in the worst of ways.

The Epstein files sit squarely in that tradition. They are not gossip. They are not tabloid junk. They read like a moral audit of people who assumed the audit would never come. They don’t just shock. They explain how wealth and status harden into impunity.

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