DSK and the pernicious 'perp walk'

I have to admit, I found the Dominique Strauss-Kahn (DSK) rape case irresistible. It stroked so many of my political prejudices: distrust of globalist bureaucrats, disdain for “public servants” living high on the hog, and residual annoyance with the French.

In DSK, the sanctimonious former head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), you had the Platonic form of the “champagne socialist,” a character whose flaws would be too over-the-top even for an Ayn Rand villain.