Twilight of the unwoke guys

Let’s begin with an update to a piece that ran in this space just a year ago (see “Putting down the Big Dog” in The New Criterion of January 2018). One year after I wrote of a Stormy Daniels–inspired revival of interest in the long-ago story of President Bill Clinton’s (and Governor Bill Clinton’s and Attorney General Bill Clinton’s) sexual transgressions—the story from which the Left had been insisting ever since that we all must “move on”—the A&E network ran a six-part miniseries on the same subject titled The Clinton Affair. It seems not unreasonable to suppose that the motivation behind this latest revisiting of the notorious “affair” between Mr. Clinton and the eternally “twenty-two-year-old intern” Monica...