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The Christine Blasey Ford Fever Dream
The Christine Blasey Ford Fever Dream
Christine Blasey Ford, accompanied by her lawyers Debra S. Katz (L) and Michael R. Bromwich (R), gives testimony before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee on September 27, 2018, in Washington, D.C. (Erin Schaff via Getty Images)
Kat Rosenfield on the Kavanaugh accuser’s new book, ‘One Way Back,’ and peak #MeToo.
By Kat Rosenfield
03.22.24 — Culture and Ideas
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The Christine Blasey Ford Fever Dream

This piece originally appeared in UnHerd.

It was autumn 2018, just over five years ago, when Christine Blasey Ford uttered that unforgettable line. “Indelible in the hippocampus is the laughter,” she said, referring to the gleeful cackling of a young Brett Kavanaugh as he allegedly drunkenly pinned her down and pawed at her clothes in an attempted assaul…

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Kat Rosenfield
Kat Rosenfield is a culture writer at The Free Press and author of five novels, including the Edgar-nominated No One Will Miss Her. Prior to joining The Free Press, she was a reporter at MTV News and a columnist at UnHerd, where she wrote about American culture and politics. Her work has also appeared in Vulture, Playboy, The Boston Globe, and Reason, among others.
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