“You Are a Criminal”

[View in your browser]( | [Update your preferences](newsletter=vf) [Vanity Fair HIVE PS]( “You Are a Criminal” Good Saturday morning, dear reader! Please pardon our interruption as you page through the works of Wittgenstein, for instance, or perhaps Frege is more your speed. But we would hate to keep you from the latest episode of Emily Jane Fox and Joe Hagan’s Inside the Hive podcast, or Nick Bilton’s ruminations on the criminality of Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht, whom the president might pardon in his final days in office. We hope you are enjoying what you’re reading (and listening to). And don’t forget to [subscribe to Vanity Fair.]( Emily Jane Fox [Michael Cohen Predicts Trump’s Future]( [The man who made his living as the president’s shadow imagines his next moves.]( [Listen]( From the Archive: Vanity Fair [The Year in Vanity Fair Photography]( [Oscar winners, change makers, essential workers, and icons—the people who made 2020 what it was, as captured in the pages of Vanity Fair.]( [Read More]( Nick Bilton [“You Are a Criminal”: The Double Standard of a Trump Pardon for Silk Road Founder Ross Ulbricht]( [The president is considering a pardon for the founder of Silk Road, once the world’s biggest illegal drug marketplace, which sold everything from cocaine to cyanide. It’s a chance afforded to few, including the nearly half a million drug offenders currently behind bars. So should it be afforded to him?]( [Read More]( [ELSEWHERE] [The World’s Greatest]( [From The Paris Review]( [Read More]( [Burnt]( [From Esquire]( [Read More]( [Tethered to the Machine]( [From ProPublica]( [Read More]( [Motherhood on the Line]( [From Longreads]( [Read More]( Get on the list Subscribe to our Hollywood newsletter for your essential industry and awards-season news, every day. [Sign Up Now]( [(image) Condé Nast Spotlight | The breaking news and top stories everyone is talking about. All in one place. The most popular stories from Vogue, GQ, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Wired, Architectural Digest and more. STAY INFORMED]( [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Instagram]( [LinkedIn]( This e-mail was sent to you by HIVE PS. To ensure delivery to your inbox (not bulk or junk folders), please add our e-mail address, vanityfair@newsletter.vf.com, to your address book. View our [Privacy Policy]( [Unsubscribe]( Copyright © Condé Nast 2020.One World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007. All rights reserved.