As I’ve mentioned before, I’m a great admirer of the sentiment that as evil can flourish in any station or position, it must be unsafe in any station. Which is hard: as Jeffrey Winters says, “one of the greatest challenges in history has been to create legal governing institutions that are stronger than the strongest people in society.”

The Jeffrey Epstein case is a good example of how blatantly we failed. Contrary to the Qanon fantasies about deep, elaborate webs of pedophiles talking in co...