The Week

Since you mentioned it, what would have been an appropriate relationship with Miss Lewinsky?

Could the President really have worn her necktie—the one that was supposed to show she was close to his heart—the day Monica Lewinsky testified? How heedless, how vulgar, how . . . appropriate. Amidst all the other threads of this cat’s cradle, at some level our President must be gratified that his potency is a topic of national discussion. How else would such a damaged being know he had any?