Reporting on Rape

Last month, Rolling Stone ran an article about an alleged gang rape at a University of Virginia fraternity house, based on interviews with a student identified only as "Jackie." It now appears that key details of the story, reported by Sabrina Rubin Erdely, may not be true. Other journalists--notably, my friend Hanna Rosin and Allison Benedikt, at Slate, and Paul Farhi, Erik Wemple, and T. Rees Shapiro, at The Washington Post--raised doubts about the reporting late last month, but Rolling Stone ...