And speaking of "puritans" new and old, the death of feminist anti-porn crusader Andrea Dworkin is a reminder of the period when Dworkin, Catharine MacKinnon and Gloria Steinem sought to pass ordinances banning pornography (until the Supreme Court struck these down), and placed themselves on the same side as Phyllis Schlafly in supporting the censorious efforts by then-Attorney General Ed Meese's Commission on Pornography.
That unholy alliance showed the truth in the old cliche that the far right and far left do, in fact, mirror each another.
Note: For those who were wondering, I am not the
Stephen Miller who writes for the New York Sun (and penned this
Dworkin obit),
though we are both cursed with an extremely common name.
-- Stephen H. Miller