Morning Jolt: The Weinstein Scandal Undermines Hollywood's Tradition of Scolding America on Politics

Making the click-through worthwhile: Hollywood loses its right to lecture anyone, Susan Collins makes a key decision, and Senate Republicans face the prospect of being a man or two down in the near future.

Hollywood Loses Its Right to Lecture Anyone

For decades, the stars and powerful players of Hollywood instructed us about which political candidates deserved election. They told us which causes were worthy of support and which ones needed to be opposed. In their works and in their speeches, they told us how to be a better person.

Hollywood, you don't get to lecture us about anything anymore. You've had a serial sexual predator operating in your midst as an open secret for decades and no one did anything about it. He appears to have abused his way through a wide swath of the industry's women with no significant consequence in the film, publishing, and media industries.

When they did respond, their actions were insufficiently consequential. They created an entire sub-genre of jokes, allusions, and villainous portrayals of Harvey Weinstein: a character on Entourage, Tom Cruise's wildly over-the-top ...

October 13 2017

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The Weinstein Scandal Undermines Hollywood's Tradition of Scolding America on Politics Jim Geraghty Making the click-through worthwhile: Hollywood loses its right to lecture anyone, Susan Collins makes a key decision, and Senate Republicans face the prospect of being a man or two down in the near future. Hollywood Loses Its Right to Lecture Anyone For decades, the stars and powerful players of Hollywood instructed us about which political candidates deserved election. They told us which causes were worthy of support and which ones needed to be opposed. In their works and in their speeches, they told us how to be a better person. Hollywood, you don't get to lecture us about anything anymore. You've had a serial sexual predator operating in your midst as an open secret for decades and no one did anything about it. He appears to have abused his way through a wide swath of the industry's women with no significant consequence in the film, publishing, and media industries. When they did respond, their actions were insufficiently consequential. They created an entire sub-genre of jokes, allusions, and villainous portrayals of Harvey Weinstein: a character on Entourage, Tom Cruise's wildly over-the-top ... READ MORE No, George Ciccariello-Maher Doesn't Believe in Academic Freedom Theodore Kupfer George Ciccariello-Maher is suddenly worried about academic freedom. Before now, the concerns of the associate professor of politics at Drexel University trended mainly to spreading the gospel... Conservatives, Get Real with Yourselves and Denounce Trump's Attacks on the Press Katherine Timpf Conservatives, Get Real with Yourselves and Denounce Trump's Attacks on the Press ADVERTISEMENT The GOP Is Hogtied by a Divided Senate Jonah Goldberg Why can't we have nice things? That's the question, if not exactly the phrasing, so many conservatives are asking these days. Despite controlling the White House and both branches of... Machiavelli or Gamer Michael Brendan Dougherty He instructed his disciple: "U should be OWNING this conversation because u r everything they hate!!! Drop your toys, pick up your tools and go help save western civilization." So said... Modern America Faces Turn-of-the-Century Problems Michael Barone Is America in a new Gilded Age? That's the contention of Republican political consultant Bruce Mehlman, and in a series of 35 slides, he makes a strong case. In many ways, problems facing... The Left Uses Scare Tactics to Fight the HHS-Mandate Rollback Alexandra DeSanctis Judging from the outrage that followed the rollback of the contraceptive mandate imposed by the Department of Health and Human Services, you might think Donald Trump had signed an executive... ADVERTISEMENT Galileo Revisited: The Galileo Affair in Context Dom Paschal Scotti 'This exquisite history of a defining moment at the birth of modernity resists the temptation to idealize or villainize, treating both Galileo and his opponents as the flesh-and-blood creatures they actually were.' - Michael Augros, Ph.D, author, Who Designed the Designer? A Rediscovered Path to God's Existence LEARN MORE Photos of the Week Top Shots ADVERTISEMENT Follow Us & Share 215 Lexington Ave., New York, NY, 10016, USA Your Preferences | Unsubscribe | Privacy View this e-mail in your browser.