Reply #96: Although I opposed her ideas personally and professionally...

[Voltaire99]

...for many years as a First Amendment absolutist, I have had a change of mind about Dworkin.

Twenty years on it is clear to me she offered a searing critique of the banality of evil, and in so doing had the number of American society: a machine that will grind up anyone or anything for profit. Pornography is only one address of heartlessness.

Some of her recent writing, especially an essay on Kerry that appeared last winter in the Guardian, was quite good: http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,1340476,00.html

So she had our number, if not, in Indianapolis and Minneapolis, the right remedy. The Moronic Inferno, to use the late lamented Saul Bellow's metaphor, resists easy dousing.

Rest in peace.