Michael Barone

With news that the charges against the Duke lacrosse players will be dropped, bloggers LaShawn Barber and K.C. Johnson have the latest, with links to their many admirable posts on the subject. It has been clear for a very long time that this has been an unjust prosecution. One thing that fascinates me is that so many on the left have had an overpowering desire to believe these charges, in the face of all the evidence of prosecutorial misconduct. It is a desire that seems to have the characteristics of religious faith–a faith, in this case, that privileged white males are constantly abusing vulnerable black females. These people want desperately to believe that this happened in this case–even though it's obvious that it isn't so.

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