“It’s easy to banish Monica Lewinsky to a cultural corner — a remnant of a time in politics that most Americans would like to forget…
“All of it feels so tawdry, so, well, gross. It was a little too much information even back then — and thinking about it now seems to serve absolutely no purpose.
“What we all forget is that Monica Lewinsky was a White House intern back in the late 1990s. She was in her early 20s.
“While our gazes got diverted over the years — Kardashians! Anthony Weiner! Something else! — Lewinsky kept living her life.
“And now, at 41, she is re-emerging — not to remind us all of that time in her and our lives, but rather to testify from her very unique perspective about the dangers of political bullying.”
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