Pursuing Harvey Weinstein

The behaviour documented in Catch and Kill is obviously and profoundly distressing but there are some hopeful threads, too

We live in polarised times, but one thing still seems to be shared across the political divide: Sexual misconduct. As Ronan Farrow documents in his absorbing new book, Catch and Kill,  mistreating women is a bipartisan enterprise.

This can make for some twisted alliances. Mr Farrow describes how he put together his explosive 2017 exposé of numerous sexual assault and harassment allegations against the Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein, a long-time Democratic fund-raiser and “part of the brain trust around Hillary Clinton.” 

Mr Farrow quotes gleeful emails between Weinstein and Dylan Howard, editor of The National Enquirer, whose parent company, American Media Inc