Opinion: Why the Epstein List Matters, by Eric Sammons

By Eric Sammons, Crisis Magazine, July 15, 2025

Eric Sammons is the editor-in-chief of Crisis Magazine and the author of Moral Money.

We live in a post-trust era, and radical transparency is the only way out.

I was never much of a conspiracy theorist. Sure, I heard the speculations (we didn’t land on the moon, vaccines cause autism, 9/11 was an inside job, etc.), but I usually just dismissed them with a shake of my head and maybe even a chuckle. I know that evil men can join together to do evil things, but I just didn’t think men were competent enough to pull off the usually elaborate machinations these theories proposed.

Of course, the past five years changed my perspective, and I’m not alone in this shift. It’s not that I see conspiracy theories everywhere; I still firmly accept that we landed on the moon, for example. However, after witnessing the massive gaslighting done by our authorities in order to give them more power and control over our lives, I realized that many conspiracy theories were conspiracy facts. …