Reality is Breaking

The essay argues that the Epstein files mark a structural collapse of the post-World War II liberal international order and of the legitimacy of the institutions that define what is real, rather than a scandal to be managed. Its author, Dr. Zarqa Parvez, writes that raw power now operates without ideological justification or accountability. The author also calls the files a "space between stories," in which old narratives are dissolving, and warns against hasty replacement explanations, invoking the French Revolution as a cautionary precedent.