Susan Pedersen
Historian and professor at Columbia University specializing in modern history and international institutions, author of essays and diaries in the LRB responding to the Jeffrey Epstein files.
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Mar 18, 2026 • 56min
Ordinary Abuse
Susan Pedersen, historian at Columbia who studies institutions; Andrew O'Hagan, novelist and LRB editor-at-large. They probe the ubiquity and ordinariness of sexual abuse, how privilege and networks enable predation, the male gaze in coverage, institutional cover-ups and why systemic change and solidarity matter.
