This sums up what I think of the Polanski affair

“When Orwell says that even a reborn Shakespeare couldn’t get away with “raping little girls,” he was either reflecting the mores of the times (1944) – or he forgot about Hollywood.”Jim Lindgren at the Volokh Conspiracy (commenting on an Orwell essay on Salvador Dali)

[H/T The Anchoress, who also has a great post on this subject]

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