What have we learned about sexual assault from the Kavanaugh case?

Is U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh a villain or a victim? It's a question that seems to divide Americans into two camps. But what if it's the wrong question to ask?

During his confirmation hearings a year ago, lots of circumstantial evidence turned up suggesting that Kavanaugh was a drunken cad in his youth and early adulthood. Then the confirmation process was upended by testimony by Christine Blasey Ford, who in her teens was tangentially in the same social