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The Social Order Politics and law The other morning, I read the revelations that Blake Bailey, author of a new, highly acclaimed biography of Philip Roth, had been accused of “grooming” young girls when he taught at a New Orleans middle school in the 1990s, then going on, allegedly, to grope them, and rape two of them when they were adults. The episode puts me in mind not of a novel by Roth (a predictable response), or of similar recent scandals. Instead, I thought of Daniel Bell’s classic work, The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism. Of the many paradoxes Bell explores, one haunts ...

A question for Brett Kavanaugh: who gets a second chance? Arwa Mahdawi Who gets a second chance? © Photograph: Joshua Roberts/Reuters Brett Kavanaugh at his confirmation hearing in September 2018. Fred Guttenberg, the father of Jaime Guttenberg, a victim of the Parkland shooting, reaches out to try to shake Kavanaugh’s hand. Let me tell you a tale of two Bretts. The first is supreme court justice Brett Kavanaugh. In 2018 Kavanaugh was credibly accused of committing sexual assault when he was a 17-year-old; a culture war promptly broke out. Liberals largely argued that the...

“I do not understand why the loutish, drunken behavior of a 17-year-old high school boy has anything to tell us about the character of a 53 year old judge,” Rod Dreher, a senior editor of the American Conservative editor tweeted, for example. “I am not the same person I was at 17. This is a terrible standard to establish in public life.” Kavanaugh himself argued that his teenage years were irrelevant. “If we want to sit here and talk about whether a supreme court nomination should be based on a high school yearbook page, I think that’s taken us to a new level of absurdity,” he s...

Bob Peterson/The LIFE Images Collection via Getty Images Blake Bailey, the author of a much-discussed new biography of Philip Roth, has been accused of sexual assault and grooming in a series of articles by the New York Times and the Times-Picayune. On Sunday, Bailey was dropped by his literary agency, the Story Factory, and on Wednesday, Bailey’s publisher W.W. Norton announced that it would cease to print or promote Bailey’s biography. The allegations against Bailey have swept across the literary world. In part, that’s because Bailey’s biography of Roth, himself an especially compli...

POLITICO Join the Women Rule community Email Sign Up By signing up you agree to receive email newsletters or updates from POLITICO and you agree to our privacy policy and terms of service. You can unsubscribe at any time and you can contact us here. This sign-up form is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. RULING THE WEEK “I’m so sick and tired of all of these men,” Senator Mazie Hirono told me when I called her last week. She was talking specifically about sexual harassment, and how it continues to be a source of scandal for prominent nationa...