The President and the Prosecutor

The President and the Prosecutor

If Bill Clinton were impeached or forced to resign over the Lewinsky case, the incident might force a national examination of how men in power treat female subordinates. The most important question his alleged behavior raises, after all, is not whether a little adultery hinders a man’s ability to make great and grave decisions; it surely does not. Rather, the question is whether a man—president, bank president, legal partner, department head, what have you—who sees women primarily as ca...


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