CRINGEWORTHY: When Jeffrey Epstein Was Cosmopolitan Magazine’s Bachelor of the Month. In July 1980, the predatory financier was featured as the magazine’s “Bachelor of the Month” seeking a “cute Texas girl.”

Here’s how the listing looked back then:

While Cosmo couldn’t know in 1980 what was around the corner for Epstein in future decades, it’s a particularly creepy anecdote in hindsight, given the low moral tenor of the times. In September 2017, after Hugh Hefner died, but just before the Harvey Weinstein story sent the Sexual Revolution into its French Revolution phase, Michael Brendan Dougherty wrote an article for NRO titled “Hugh Hefner, Gangsta Rap & the Emerging Moral Majority.” “Slowly, however, the elite of our culture seem to be drifting toward a new, far-more jaundiced and suspicious view of popular culture from the 1960s to the 1990s.”