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For Some High-profile Men In Trouble, Women, Especially Feminist Women, Became The All-purpose Scapegoats-charged With Crimes That Often Descended Into The Absurd.

Having Whipped Single Women Into High Marital Panic-or "nuptialitis," As One Columnist Called It- The Press Hastened To Soothe Fretted Brows With Conjugal Tonic.

As It Turns Out, Social Scientists Have Established Only One Fact About Single Women's Mental Health: Employment Improves It.

An Accurate Charting Of American Women's Progress Through History Might Look More Like A Corkscrew Tilted Slightly To One Side, Its Loops Inching Closer To The Line Of Freedom With The Passage Of Time-but, Like A Mathematical Curve Approaching Infinity, Never Touching Its Goal.

Instead Of Confronting Its Real And Difficult Problems And Grappling Honestly With A Dark Past, Hungary Embraced A Reactionary Government And A Self-pitying Image Of Itself As The Victimized Nation, And Went Looking For Scapegoats In The Roma, Jews, And, Most Recently, Syrian Migrants.