Two months ago, Maria Kovalchuk, a Ukrainian model whose last known appearance was at a party in Dubai she attended with two unidentified men “who introduced themselves as representatives of the modelling business,” was found, ten days after the party, lying on a road next to a construction site. Her arms, legs, and spine were broken, and she could not speak; Dubai police said, improbably, that she entered the construction site alone and “fell from an undisclosed height.” As I reported in a previous piece for the Libertarian Institute, Kovalchuk’s experience is shared by women in the United...
