One phrase – or some variant of it – that seems to crop up in discussions of sexual assault more frequently than almost all others is “blaming the victim” (though I imagine “rape culture” and ...

Apparently, blaming the victim of a crime is the strategy for getting a defendant a light sentence in Vermont. It makes perfect sense, considering how lenient Vermont is on crime penalty. The ...

Sympathy from the left in the wake of Turning Point USA (TPUSA) founder Charlie Kirk's assassination has been less than overwhelming. While many prominent Democrats paid lip-service to the heinous ...

There are many sad and discouraging aspects of the downtown "brawl," but maybe the most repugnant is the victim-blaming (which, according to the prosecutor who has seen all the evidence, is not true) ...

President Donald Trump did it after the 2021 attack on the US Capitol. He did it after the 2022 attack on the husband of then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. He did it after the murder last month of ...

The Anti-Defamation League accused Megyn Kelly of using an antisemitic trope against Ben Shapiro and victim-blaming Bari Weiss after Kelly outrageously claimed the two, who are Jewish, are causing ...

PUTTING blame on the victim of a crime, such as physical or sexual assault, is a sordid practice as old as history itself. Rape victims are castigated for the egregious violation they suffered for ...