E24 - Today on Vapid Response Wednesday: the story of a wealthy family that lost everything and the one son who had no choice but to try to defend his sister after she was convicted of abusing and trafficking minors with (and for) Jeffrey Epstein. For this special episode we read through Ian Maxwell’s entire body of published work for The Spectator and unseriously consider some of the many questions the tabloid heir raises about the arrest and conviction of his sister Ghislaine, the evils of the First Amendment, and of course a lengthy digression about some people named Todd.  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@SeriousPodNetwork" target= "_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Watch this episode on YouTube</a>! <ul> <li> <a href= "https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/712958/nobodys-girl-by-virginia-roberts-giuffre/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Nobody's Girl</a>, Virginia Roberts Giuffre (2025) </li> <li> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNLQmpT4oQ0" target= "_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Virginia Giuffre’s full 2019 interview on 60 Minutes Australia</a> </li> <li> <a href= "http://youtube.com/watch?si=mLcfPLjMd_zgA9fG&t=1061&v=e7tVc5xxiDs&feature=youtu.be" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Ian Maxwell’s video interview with The Telegraph</a>, Feb. 20, 2026 </li> <li> <a href="https://spectator.com/writer/ian-maxwell/?edition=us" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Ian Maxwell’s author page at The Spectator</a> </li> <li> <a href= "https://spectator.com/article/the-truth-about-my-sister-ghislaine-maxwell/?edition=us" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">“The truth about my sister, Ghislaine Maxwell,”</a> Ian Maxwell, The Spectator, 12/16/2021 </li> <li> <a href= "https://spectator.com/article/my-sister-ghislaine-became-a-prop-in-the-theatre-of-global-online-outrage/?edition=us" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">“My sister Ghislaine was denied justice,”</a> Ian Maxwell, The Spectator (UK edition), 7/1/2022 </li> <li> <a href= "https://spectator.com/article/dont-take-virginia-giuffres-memoir-at-face-value/?edition=us" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">“Don’t take Virginia Giuffre’s memoir at face value,”</a> Ian Maxwell, The Spectator, 11/5/2025 </li> <li> <a href= "https://spectator.com/article/how-my-sister-ghislaine-beat-the-epstein-conspiracy-theories/?edition=us" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">“How my sister Ghislaine beat the Epstein conspiracy theories,”</a> Ian Maxwell, The Spectator, 9/9/2025 </li> <li> <a href= "https://spectator.com/article/my-sister-ghislaine-became-a-prop-in-the-theatre-of-global-online-outrage/?edition=us" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">“My sister Ghislaine became a prop in the theater of global online outrage,”</a> Ian Maxwell, The Spectator, 2/25/26 </li> <li> <a href= "https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20060213225148/http://www.dti.gov.uk/cld/mirrorgroup/index.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Full Department of Trade and Industry report</a> regarding the investigation into Robert Maxwell's pension fund embezzlement and corporate fraud (2001) </li> </ul> Check out the OA <a href= "https://linktr.ee/openingarguments" target="_blank" rel= "noopener noreferrer nofollow">Linktree</a> for all the places to go and things to do!

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