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Article: Sexual Hangup.(sexual issues and impeachment)
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- National Review
- Article date:
- February 8, 1999
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Sure, the Clinton scandal is about sex-but so is the rest of American politics.
Clinton's defenders are right about l'affaire Lewinsky. It is about sex. Not in the sense they generally intend, of course. Clinton has been in trouble because of felonies, not fellatio; and the legal and moral issues raised by his conduct are not reducible to sexual immorality. But the debate about the Clinton scandal has been a debate, albeit a veiled and confused one, about the sexual revolution and its legacy. This is largely because the Left made it so. Most of the commentary on impeachment-as-culture-war has come from liberals who have attributed conservatives' antipathy to ...