![]() It is as though people knew of only the Ford Foundation and Rockefeller University, not Henry Ford or John D. Third, the name Sackler became widely known not when they made their money but when they gave a good deal of it away to philanthropy. Second, their wrongdoing involved so many accomplices as to deplete the national eraser supply. First, they are not a single wrongdoer but a clan: three psychiatrist brothers born to a Jewish immigrant family of modest means, their multiple wives, ex-wives, children and at least one grandchild. In that effort, the Sackler family presents unusual complications. In this time of corrective unnamings-to remove traces of admiration or gratitude for the morally reevaluated-the names of unrepentant slaveholders, Confederate generals, contemporary sexual predators and other assorted wrongdoers have been erased or proposed for erasure from college dorms, military bases, city streets and more. ![]()
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