The Abusive Society

Why Abuse Seems to Reach Into Every Corner of Modern Life

I’d love to have kids. I don’t have kids. If I did, I’d be worried about them. Abuse, it seems, reaches crookedly into every tiny nook and cranny of life. We discovered that the hard way, from Weinstein to Spacey to Cosby to all the predators yet to be named. But what does that itself begin to hint at? An abusive society.

Let’s chart the journey of an av…