Remember the bizarre daycare center “ritual abuse” trials of the eighties–the McMartin case in Los Angeles, the Little Rascals case in Edenton, North Carolina, the Kelly Michaels case in New J

I’ve always vowed I would never be one of those people–and you know who you are!–who cancel their ACLU membership in a fit of pique over a single issue.

My first thought upon hearing that the Kansas state education board had removed evolution from its mandatory curriculum was: Go ahead! Be like that! Handicap your kids for life.

It didn’t take long for the press to connect 21-year-old white-supremacist multikiller Benjamin Smith with the all-purpose explanation du jour: violent entertainment, in this case the computer g

How will we know when women have achieved equality? Male politicians will all be bachelors.

You’re 19, single, on welfare. You breast-feed your baby because you know breast is best. When the baby fails to gain weight, your mother says not to worry, you were even smaller at that age.

Masses of people driven from their homes, murdered, maimed, raped, sent into panicked flight.

Does it seem to you that feminism this past year was just one long gargle over the meaning of Monica? That the biggest women’s issue was whether oral sex is sex?

I didn’t realize how much I was counting on Larry Flynt until I noticed I had spent Monday evening trying to find on the Web or TV a report of the much-anticipated news conference in which h