New book: how boomer hysteria undermined our freedoms

"Indeed, Mrs. Lovejoy, the preacher's wife in The Simpsons who is always screaming 'What about the children!?' could be an icon of the era. As Baby Boomers aged -- the 18-year-old dope-smoking hippy in 1972 was a 28-year-old parent in 1982 -- libertine attitudes toward drugs curdled into fears of what they would do to the kids, radical feminist concerns with liberating women's sexuality curdled into fear of marauding men who rape women and sexually abuse children..." "DRC Net Review Essay: Drug Policy and Prohibition in Context" DRC Net