Sexual Hang-Up

“There’s a strand of Western culture that requires some kind of demonized enemy,” says Ellen Schrecker, author of Many Are the Crimes: McCarthyism in America. “In the late ’40s and ’50s, it was Communists, but today it’s operating in the realm of sexuality. We’re obviously in the middle of a Red scare about sex.”

Wow. But wait. There’s more of the same.

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Ramesh Ponnuru

Ramesh Ponnuru is the editor of National Review, a columnist for the Washington Post, and a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.

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“There’s a strand of Western culture that requires some kind of demonized enemy,” says Ellen Schrecker, author of Many Are the Crimes: McCarthyism in America. “In the late ’40s and ’50s, it was Communists, but today it’s operating in the realm of sexuality. We’re obviously in the middle of a Red scare about sex.”

Wow. But wait. There’s more of the same.