Monica’s Talking Points Enter Realm of Mystery

As Dan Rather demonstrated when he interviewed the President on 60 Minutes II, the Clinton legacy will always be bedeviled by the blue dress. The news media sacrificed their dignity over it, and Ken Starr his future. Every 10-year-old who ever steps into the Clinton library will torture the curators there over it, causing a Read More

Sex Kitten Amy Sohn Reemerges at Oxygen

Wednesday, March 22

WNBC’s 11 o’clock news plunged directly into the mouth of hell on Sunday night, March 19.

Here’s what viewers saw when they tuned in: weekend anchor Glen Walker, sitting all alone in a vaguely familiar, bare-bones newsroom, reading the day’s news, sports and weather, and apologizing over and over for major Read More

Soaring Above the Sordid, Judge Rules on Monica Mess

An Affair of State: The Investigation, Impeachment, and Trial of President Clinton , by Richard A. Posner. Harvard University Press, 276 pages, $24.95.

While the Clintons house-hunt in Westchester County, plan Hillary’s run for the Senate and spin novel psychoanalytic and religious explanations for the President’s behavior, the rest of us have been left to Read More

Tripp May Bug You, but That’s No Crime

Linda Tripp’s indictment on two charges of illegal wiretapping

may have been a necessary vindication of the rule of law, as the Maryland state

prosecutor insists. But actually sending her to prison-a conviction on either

felony count carries a maximum sentence of five years-would constitute terrible

and unwarranted punishment of a woman who already is Read More

Victims of Politics: The Sad, Smiling Wives

Debbie Then started writing her new book Women Who Stay With Men Who Stray back in those forgotten days when Monica Lewinsky was just another star-struck young woman who went home at night wondering if her powerful, middle-aged, married boyfriend knew her name. And now Dr. Then, one of them there relationships experts, finds herself Read More

Hazy, Brilliant Hitchens Strokes Anti-Clinton Sword

No One Left to Lie To: The Triangulations of William Jefferson Clinton , by Christopher Hitchens. Verso, 122 pages, $19.

Christopher Hitchens’ last-minute appearance in the impeachment drama was thrilling if only for his open denim shirt and hairy chest, his cursed and boozy Richard Burton sex appeal. Here at last was someone from the Read More

Fearful Baptist Falls for Sex, Burns for Sin

The Monica interview, like Monica Lewinsky herself, has now been much chewed over and sits among us like an old doggy bone, unraveling, splintering while everyone waits for someone else to take it off the living room rug. Bear with me for a little more nibbling. I was interested in the President’s statement to her, Read More