I Don’t Love The Way You Lie: On Justice and Jussie Smollett

by Max S. Gordon

With the news that Jussie Smollett’s story to police was — allegedly — a complete hoax, a hoax that has now led to a felony charge, there remains something compellingly truthful even within his lie. It is this grain of truth to which Jussie may be clinging desperately, as his whole world continues to fall down around him. The fact is…