This NYT story argues that the American legal system and the culture in general have become far less lenient toward adults having sex with minors since the wild and crazy 1970s. While doing so it softpedals Roman Polanski's crimes, waiting until the 13th graph to...
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Guy whose primary work in film involved casting soft-porn flicks calls rape of 13-year-old "a little thing" in rising to the defense of Roman Polanski. Further commentary is presumably rendered.
In today's edition, Anne Applebaum attempts to further explain the many complexities that make it "outrageous" that someone who raped a 13-year-old and fled the authorities after pleading guilty was.
In case the Polanski itself doesn't convince you that good politics/morals and major artistic talent have much to do with each other, I note that while people like Martin Scorsese, Ethan Coen and (natch) Woody Allen are on the wrong side of the issue, the...
Greenwald, on Fred Hiatt criticizing "French" and "Hollywood" defenses of Polanski while ignoring the defenses of Polanski on his own op-ed page:But the last thing that ought to be surprising.
Neo-neocon bring her mad yoosta-bee skillz to the Polanski issue:The reaction of no small number of pundits on the Left to the Polanski case is to recommend that we let.
This reads like a wingnut parody of degenerate France and degenerate Hollywood engaging in an orgy of amoral pomposity. (As a lawyer I confess ignorance regarding the principle of immunity from legal process for film festival attendees). I can only hope that most of the...
I will hopefully leave this subject for a while, but before I do, for those who haven't seen Wanted and Desired I can't recommend Lauren Bans's post more strongly:Excepting the.
Several commentators in the Polanski thread are apparently taking the view that if a particular exercise of criminal punishment is unlikely to deter crime or rehabilitate the offender, then punishing.
See Harding, McEwen, and Hess. Eugene Robinson's column on the subject is so good that I suspect that as we speak Fred Hiatt is firing him so he can buy Anne Applebaum and Richard Cohen more crayons. Speaking of Applebaum, I guess one of the...
You've probably heard that Roman Polanski was arrested in Switzerland. I think this is a very good thing, and find most of the outrage over it baffling.One thing to note.