A Significant Shift

April, 1992

I went out on a limb in the September Men column and defended the reputation of William Kennedy Smith. "As I see it," I wrote, "Smith is already as much a victim in this case as his accuser claims to be. . . . All it takes to lynch a man these days is the accusation of rape."I wrote those words last June. Smith was being pilloried in the press and on TV, wild rumors abounded, nothing was said in his favor---and your favorite Men columnist sometimes wondered whether the words...