Leaders clinging to office: Addicted to power

The age-old assumption that power is an aphrodisiac may not be as secure as it was before Rose McGowan and Ashley Judd, last October, brought Hollywood demagogue Harvey Weinstein’s decades of sexual predation to a shuddering end.

Even a figure as powerful as Weinstein, who could make or destroy careers as his appetites dictated, could not survive his victims’ enraged, if belated awakening.