July 30, 2012 Death noted: Radical-left polemicist Alexander Cockburn, who as early as 1990 was raging against claims of satanic ritual abuse. Cockburn gave particular attention to feminism’s role in the mania: “In the coalition powering the satanic abuse persecutions,” he recalled in a 1999 column in The Nation, “feminists constituted a powerful component, most conspicuously … Continue reading R.I.P., Alexander Cockburn, ritual-abuse skeptic