Jonah Goldberg's "
What 'War on Women'?" reveals the politics of the so-called "war" that never existed. But women "won" that phony war many decades ago.
EXCERPT: Accurate statistics are of limited use in that regard because rape and sexual assault have been declining for decades. So the Obama administration and its allied activist groups trot out the claim that there is a rape epidemic victimizing 1 in 5 women on college campuses. This conveniently horrifying number is a classic example of being too terrible to check. If it were true, it would mean that rape would be more prevalent on elite campuses than in many of the most impoverished and crime-ridden communities. It comes from tendentious Department of Justice surveys that count “attempted forced kissing†and other potentially caddish acts that even the DOJ admits “are not criminal.â€
