I was swiping through Instagram Stories last week when I was served an eBay ad for a very familiar sweatshirt. Of all the accoutrements of the life and crimes of Jeffrey Epstein, a 2005 image showing him wearing a navy monogrammed quarter zip and a slight, characteristic smirk has acquired an endless digital footprint and a discomfiting resonance. With the Epstein story approaching the 10-year mark as a global preoccupation, this nth phase of the intrigue, largely prompted by fallout from the Department of Justice’s July proclamation that there were no further criminal charges in the works, has spawned a potent cottage industry. One can now purchase an Epstein quarter zip, as it’s invariably described, from an array of Etsy entrepreneurs, the white nationalist streamer Nick Fuentes’s web store ($69.99), or epsteinquarterzip.com ($49.00), which promotes its wares to its 129,000 Instagram followers with AI-generated images of Donald Trump and Bill Clinton sporting the titular apparel. “Iconic merch” is how leading right-leaning gaming streamer Asmongold recently described it. When Fuentes wore his riff on the sweatshirt, …