Clarence Thomas’s Billionaire Friend Is No Nazi

This article was updated on April 14, 2023, at 4:29pm

I have never met Harlan Crow, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’s billionaire best friend, but I have peered through the fence surrounding his estate late at night, and once I went inside and snooped around for a couple of hours. Last year, Crow and his wife, Kathy, put on an event to honor two Dallas humanitarians, and I was invited with about 100 others for cocktails and canapés in the Crows’ cavernous library—a Texas-scale wood-paneled room with a walk-in fireplace and a collection of art and memorabilia worthy of a Bond villain. Recent reporting by has suggested that that is what Harlan Crow in fact is: a sinister Croesus meddling in world affairs, chiefly by corrupting Clarence Thomas with gifts of private-jet flights and bottles of pricey French wine.