WHAT’S THIS “WE” BUSINESS? Why Do We Boycott ‘Ender’s Game’ But Give Roman Polanski An Oscar? The answer, of course, is that to “we” Polanski is one of “us,” but Orson Scott Card is one of “them.”

More thoughts on what that means. “Hollywood’s compassion is peculiarly narrow. They’re still trying to decide whether to forgive Elia Kazan for naming communists in Hollywood more than a half-century ago. Anal rape of a 13-year-old girl merits compassion, but there are limits.”