As everyone now knows, International Monetary Fund managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn was arrested on Saturday in dramatic fashion, hauled out of his first-class seat on an Air France plane at […]
Author: Juliet Williams
Dr. Juliet Williams is an Associate Professor of Women's Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. She writes the Feminist Takes on Sex Scandals Blog (http://sexscandalblog.blogspot.com). Her books include Public Affairs: Politics in the Age of Sex Scandals (co-edited with Paul Apostolidis, Duke University Press, 2004).
Bishop Long: Hypocrisy and Its Discontents
By now we’ve all heard that Bishop Eddie L. Long of the New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Georgia has been charged with coercing several young men from his congregation […]
Babes in Scandal-land
Terrorist Plot Foiled! European Economy Collapsing! Environmental Disaster Raging! Even in ordinary times, headlines like these struggle to hold the notoriously fickle attention of the American people-—but they don’t stand […]