The Wit And Wisdom Of...

August, 1992

Catharine MacKinnon is on a roll. A cover story in The New York Times Sunday Magazine coincided with the Thomas confirmation debacle. Suddenly she is everywhere, identified as "a national expert on sexual abuse," "a brilliant political strategist" or "the Meese Commission's favorite feminist." Peter Jennings anointed her as "the country's most prominent legal theorist on behalf of women, whose dedication to laws which serve men and women equally has made it bet...

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