That includes believing, for example, that there is a conspiracy afoot that all of Strauss-Kahn's resources and lawyers and investigators have been unable to definitively unearth, but that Edward Jay Epstein, writing in the New York Review of Books and the Financial Times, can help us glimpse, even if he won't spell it out entirely. (The criminal case against DSK collapsed because of the prosecutor's doubts about the accuser's credibility; her civil case is pending.)

The problems begin with the passive headline, "What happened to Dominique Strauss-Kahn?" and the declaration that "May 14, 2011, was a horrendous day" for DSK. It cannot be denied that it's very unpleasant to be arrested for sexual assault and attempted rape, even for a man less famous than DSK. But you could also argue that it's even more unpleasant to be allegedly sexually assaulted by a wealthy and powerful man, which is Nafissatou Diallo's side of the story.

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