Harvard Still Employs Professor Whose Emails With Epstein Mentioned Spies And Torture

August 18, 2026 12:10 PM ET Even as the class of 2030 prepares to arrive to the Harvard campus in two weeks, it’s not yet clear how much longer Martin Nowak — who cryptically discussed a “captured spy” and “torture” with pedophile Jeffrey Epstein in an unearthed 2014 email — will remain on the university’s payroll.Epstein deeply enmeshed himself with Nowak’s Program for Evolutionary Dynamics (PED) just off of leafy Harvard Yard. Epstein maintained an office there, describing it as “my istittue [sic] at harvard” in an email released last fall.It’s back to school season, but many questions about Epstein’s relationship to the Ivy League remain unanswered. Some of the individuals who lent Harvard’s prestige to the sex trafficker — eager to launder his reputation and remain ensconced in elite c