Quotes from Joann Wypijewski

a woman who'd come of age in the 1990s mentioned "the unfinished business" of the sexual revolution: "What went wrong?" Even without a backlash, what went wrong is what always does: capitalism bit down, absorbed the liberationist impulse, mass-produced the sex but everywhere devalued knowledge, meaningful education, manifold reality; and liberationist forces were too besieged or internally at odds to withstand

the question of why America developed its particular habits of power, or why those persist; why it is so easy still for color to blind us, class to confuse us, sex and gender to trap us; why as a nation we are staggeringly cruel yet stubborn about our innocence; why love is so hard.

how widespread is the view that a criminal trial is not about determining facts and repairing the breach crime creates in the social fabric but about enlisting state power for the satisfaction of the aggrieved individual.