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Article: Standard Deviance.(Book Review)
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- National Review
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- October 28, 2002
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The Politics of Deviance, by Anne Hendershott (Encounter, 194 pp., $26.95)
A play about a man in love with a goat wins the Tony award. A prime-time TV game show features a totally naked woman throwing a little football at a large screen. A mainline Protestant church encourages homeless people to live in cardboard boxes on its steps. College students consume and create pornography for credit.
Such is little more than an average week's news in the blandly decadent America of the 21st century, and, as each new wave of bizarreness unfurls, practically the only condemnation we hear is against those who dare to be offended. Thus Anne Hendershott's astute and ...