Before Republicans on the House Oversight Committee released a vast tranche of Jeffrey Epstein’s emails, Harvard professor Larry Summers, 70, came across as a smug economist who liked to attend conferences and drone on about the Federal Reserve. Now we know he was also a buffoon who complained about gorgeous women not wanting to sleep with him to a convicted pedophile.

The emails make it clear that Summers did not regard Epstein’s 2008 guilty plea to sex crimes against children as a friendship killer. Instead, the two remained tight over the next decade with Summers sharing intimate details of his personal life with Epstein. Which makes some sense. If you don’t want to be judged, you look for a friend with the nicest, largest glass house.

Of course, none of us would want our private em

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