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With Malice Toward Some

By K.C. Johnson

When the lacrosse case first broke, politically correct members of the media (such as Selena Roberts) and race/class/gender faculty ideologues (most spectacularly the Group of 88) rushed to exploit it. And then the case to which they had attached their reputations imploded. It?s not hard to imagine Caitlin Flanagan speaking for them in the January Atlantic, as she seethed, ?The [falsely] accused players? improbable turn as victimized solid citizens was the most unpleasant result of the D.A.?s bungled case.?Yet the lacrosse case was not the ostensible subject of Flanagan?s article. Instead, in an effort that has attracted widespread condemnation, Flanagan sought to apply a Group of 88-style race/class/gender analysis to the Karen Owen ?thesis...continue to full post

Full post as published by Durham-in-Wonderland on January 16, 2011 (boomark / email).