Cornell’s real crisis is irrationalism, not rape
In claiming a campus rape crisis, the university’s students are egged on by radical professors who betray the cause of reason for an ideology of victimhood.
25 October 2026
Wrongful Convictions · False Allegations · Memory & the Courts
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In claiming a campus rape crisis, the university’s students are egged on by radical professors who betray the cause of reason for an ideology of victimhood.
25 October 2026
Craig McLachlan has revealed the devastating toll of his years-long legal battle, admitting he hit rock bottom as mounting legal bills and professional isolation upended his life.
24 October 2026
A.B. says she came to on Galloway’s office floor while he watched the Canucks game. Her texts show her following that game with her husband, minute by minute.
20 October 2026
A Suffolk County jury awarded former MIT professor David Sabatini $6 million after finding that Kristin Knouse, a younger colleague who accused him of sexual misconduct, had defamed him, and rejected her counterclaims.
17 October 2026
The point in the Cornell case is not that women lie; most do not. But every accusation is a claim, and claims must be tested, argues Jay Beecher.
16 October 2026
A Cornell alumnus argues that the rush to judgment over the 'Jane Doe' allegations against seven Chi Phi members abandons the presumption of innocence, and that mothers of young men are watching with alarm.
15 October 2026
Janice Fiamengo argues that the furore over the Cornell Chi Phi allegation shows how few people in authority will now defend the presumption of innocence and due process for accused young men.
12 October 2026
As Cornell hires Sally Yates to investigate a gang-rape allegation, Luke Rosiak recalls how Mary Jo White's report for the University of Rochester found the claims against professor Florian Jaeger unsubstantiated, and the university paid $9.4 million anyway.
8 October 2026
Bettina Arndt on the continuing campaign against Craig McLachlan after he was found not guilty of 13 charges.
9 April 2026
Brendan O'Neill argues the Epstein scandal has morphed into a moral panic, cancelling men for the flimsiest of connections.
6 February 2026
Bodycam footage shows the police raid on a MeToo accuser as questions mount over her celebrity abuse claims.
3 October 2025
Mary Wakefield on the 'Believe Her' movement and the case of German MP Stefan Gelbhaar, whose career was ruined by allegations that collapsed.
29 January 2025
Vanessa Scammell denounces the #MeToo campaign that ruined Craig McLachlan's career and the erosion of the presumption of innocence.
27 December 2024
Bettina Arndt takes apart claims of an airline rape crisis and the activist campaign driving the story.
7 October 2024
Oscar-winning actor Kevin Spacey has been cleared of multiple sexual assault charges. Some say he faces an uphill struggle to return to his previous position as a top-ranking star.
27 July 2023
In 2020, a British High Court judge ruled that actor Johnny Depp was probably a “wife beater.” In 2022, an American jury disagreed. Who got it right?
18 January 2023
How unproven sexual assault allegations can create celebrities out of accusers while destroying the lives of the accused.
10 January 2023
Bettina Arndt on the Brittany Higgins case and what readers can do about the attack on basic principles of criminal justice.
31 October 2022
Recent tweets by Stanford Law Professor and Amber Heard supporter, Michele Dauber, have viciously attacked Johnny Depp’s attorney Camille Vasquez. Dauber…
3 July 2022
A Fairfax County jury found for Johnny Depp against Amber Heard — a significant defeat for the #MeToo witch-hunt and a victory for the presumption of innocence and due process.
3 June 2022
Four days into Johnny Depp’s defamation trial against Amber Heard, his testimony paints a very different picture from the #MeToo allegations that damaged his acting career.
23 April 2022
Peter Bradshaw on Kevin Spacey and the rise of 'uncancel culture' for famous men never criminally convicted.
25 May 2021
For those committed to preserving a society worth living in, few sights could be more dispiriting than that of mass rallies undermining the presumption of…
19 March 2021
The Australian government may fall because of unproven and extremely dodgy 30-year-old rape allegations against a cabinet minister – the unchecked power of the #MeToo movement and its woke media allies is destroying our society.
9 March 2021
Actor Craig McLachlan is found not guilty of all seven charges of indecent assault and six charges of common assault in the Melbourne Magistrates' Court.
15 December 2020
Oscar winner to be awarded full $2.9m in damages after judges reject all publisher’s grounds of appeal
2 July 2020
In less than three years Ronan Farrow has become the most widely admired journalist in America for a series of scoops that began with an explosive story about…
19 May 2020
In March, a 56-year-old California woman named Tara Reade publicly accused Joe Biden of sexually assaulting her in 1993. The issue caused an awkward rift among…
14 May 2020
Weinstein’s conviction has established the “breakthrough” principle that a criminal conviction can be secured without reliable and verifiable evidence. The working class and poor will suffer the consequences.
26 February 2020
Moses Farrow's first-person account of life inside Mia Farrow's household, and why he says the 1992 allegation against Woody Allen never happened.
23 May 2018
“We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.”
22 May 2018