by George Rutherglen

About the author: George Rutherglen is a professor of law at the University of Virginia, in Charlottesville.

If we take the comments of Maggie Gallagher [a syndicated columnist and author] and Michael McDonald [president of the Center for Individual Rights, a public interest law firm] seriously, we now find ourselves in the midst of a great liberal witch hunt where the law of sexual harassment is used to enforce political correctness. I have no doubt that the law of sexual harassment could be misunderstood to serve this purpose, but in this respect, I think, it is more sinned against than sinning. Upon closer inspection, the actual law scarcely resembles the caricature that has been offered by its detractors—or occasionally, for that matter, by its supporters. The law...