The federal government took direct aim at the U.S. communist party in 1948 when it indicted its top twelve leaders in the Foley Square trial.
Like The Second Sex, it focuses on a group of people designated as Other; like The Second Sex it exposes the mythical status of the "facts" about aging and the aged; and like The Second Sex it indicts society for its dehumanization of those it designates as Other.
Its investigation of Uganda's internal wars was also flawed; it indicted five members of the Lord's Resistance Army, a bloodthirsty rebel force (one of whom has died), but failed to hold state forces responsible for their misdeeds.
It indicts patterns of behavior that are considered normal and respectable in Washington.
In 2005, it indicted two lobbyists for a pro-Israel group who had been accused of receiving leaked information from a Pentagon official and conveying it to others.
In 2002 it indicted Marion True, then the antiquities curator of the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, on charges of trafficking in looted objects.
The government ended up investigating Elan, and in 2012 it indicted an S.A.C. portfolio manager named Mathew Martoma on insider-trading charges.
The Sudanese president, Omar Hassan al-Bashir, arrived Wednesday in Chad, on his first trip to a member state of the International Criminal Court since it indicted him last year on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur.
Specifically, it indicts World War II's victorious leaders for resorting to the traditional politics of great-power rivalry rather than imagining unprecedented global cooperation, a metadecision that saddled us with the dangers of the nuclear age.
Alfred Kazin thought Revolutionary Road "squarely locates the field of tragedy as marriage", others that it indicted suburbia - it's clear, though, that the Wheelers would be just as lost and discontented in Paris.
