More relevant to the Epstein situation is that he was an aspiring novelist who, in 1973, a year before his time as Dalton’s headmaster ended, published a book about intergalactic sex slavery called Space Relations. Vice, reporting on the book and its disturbing content, said: “In September of 1973, a year before his tenure at Dalton ended, Barr published Space Relations. The book is highly unsettling and depicts the rape of enslaved people, especially teenage girls, and other coercive sex acts for the dual purposes of entertainment and controlled procreation.”16

Continuing, the Vice article on the book notes that it revolves around mainly-male oligarchic predation on teenage girls and that “By far the most disgusting aspect of the novel is its fixation on sexualizing adolescents, and its depictions of rape. Even the adult characters in the book are constantly infantilized. The novel is also rife with casually unsettling observations such as: ‘To me, pederasty seems utterly lacking in aesthetic appeal.’”17

So, Donald Barr, at the time he was headmaster of Dalton and Dalton hired Epstein, the pedophile who hung around flirting with young girls and later ran a massive sex trafficking operation in which mainly male oligarchic elites preyed on young girls, wrote a book about oligarchic elites sadistically preying on young girls. As Vice noted in its article on the book, “the connection between Epstein and Barr is flimsy, and any link between Epstein’s crimes and the book’s contents even more so.”18 But it is a coincidence.