Sometimes I wish I couldn’t read, because it would allow me to spend what little time I have not perusing news of recently disgraced men. But, you know what they say about wishes: they’re like pennies. And I have far fewer pennies than former Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter, who used space in his boutique newsletter Air Mail to commission a breathless feature about accused sexual harasser Leon Wieseltier. The former New Republic literary editor, whose startup publication was abruptly shut down in 2017 after numerous women came forward with allegations of sexual harassment, is back.
o over the course of a career? Plenty, apparently. Because despite the allegations, Wieseltier has been given yet another opportunity to spend a lot of someone else’s money spreading his own ideas. In thethe time-honored tradition of the powerful, victimized man.
“I don’t believe I was a threat to anybody, I really don’t,” he said when asked about the allegations three years on. Instead, he fears “the Robespierrian haste with which people’s heads were chopped off before they could say a word,” or that “an allegation was tantamount to a conviction. The fact that all infractions were treated equally—there was no sense of proportion or sense of measure.” Around these quotes, of course, are a variety of sweaty, raving defenses from the friends and associates who will gain from Wieseltier’s endeavor.’ 24-year-old managing editor, who claims the allegations were just women “trying to figure out whether they could have complicated feelings about these things and still be loyal feminists.” Now, three years after the bulk of MeToo’s initial wave, the once-lauded men of media’s inner sanctums are tired of playing the farce. As Wieseltier and others like him supposedly see it, they did their penance, and they want what is now owed to them: power, a platform, prestige, the ability to shape and control intellectual debates. It’s almost too predictable that Williams, the supposed editor of the Harper’s Letter decrying “cancel culture” and the takeover of the media sphere by rabble-rousing, identity-obsessed leftists, is a headlining act infirst issue. In all this, Williams and Wieseltier exploit the ugly truth: There are infinite chances for powerful men.
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