Masha Gessen | Al Franken and the Selective Force of #MeToo




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Senator Al Franken. (photo: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg)
Masha Gessen, The New Yorker
Gessen writes: "The roughly half of Americans who are actually deeply invested in thinking of themselves as good people are trying to claim a moral high ground. The urge to do so by policing sex is not surprising."
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