Tim Combes’s Reviews > Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty > Status Update

Perhaps the best microcosm of the Sacklers’ myopia and wealth is that one of them, upon hearing that they’d be featured on Last Week Tonight, complained “how is my son supposed to apply to high school in September?”

Not for nothing, Pete Buttigieg worked for McKinsey 🤢🤮

Thank god Jeffrey Wright is a good person

Keefe loves the word “enclave”

I shouldn’t be shocked by the corruption in the justice department or the self-flagellating cowardice of the NYT but….. man it’s bad

Shocking to think that there was a time where hiring Rudy Guiliani as in house counsel was considered a good pr move

Everything the Sacklers do leading up to the introduction of OxyContin feels like run of the mill irresponsible capitalism. Bad but mundane. It’s how they dig their heels in after they know it’s killing people that makes them truly evil.

A century earlier, Bayer had marketed Heroin as morphine without the unpleasant side effects, even though Heroin was actually more powerful than morphine and every bit as addictive. Now, in internal discussions at Purdue. . . Richard [Sackler] and his colleagues entertained the notion of a similar marketing strategy.”

The Hague. All of them.