Posted on 22 March 2020
Why, in March of 2020, is The Washington Post devoting four pages of the Sunday newspaper to a one-hit wonder from 1992? Because she ripped up a picture of sainted Pope John Paul II on Saturday Night Live. There won’t be a four-page spread with eight pictures on Ugly Kid Joe or the Soup Dragons. But say “Christianity lied to me,” and your latest attempt at rehabilitation gets another round of hosannas. And there, in paragraph 7, we're told she converted to Islam. But nowhere in the piece is O'Connor asked to reconcile her middle-finger feminism with her newfound...