Washington Post “gender columnist” Monica Hesse made a splash on the front page of Friday’s Style section celebrating Christine Blasey Ford’s new memoir. She made a pile of unsubstantiated allegations of attempted teenage rape against Brett Kavanaugh when he was up for the Supreme Court in 2018. With time to reflect, Ford still doesn’t have any substance to her charges, like a time or a place for her alleged victimization:
Readers looking to “One Way Back” for a magic bullet to prove Kavanaugh’s guilt or innocence are out of luck. Ford doesn’t remember anything more than she’s already publicly recalled; there are no new witnesses or unearthed diary entries. What she gives instead is a thoughtful exploration of what it feels like to become a main character in a major American reckoning — a woman tossed out to sea and learning that the…
