Why Harvey Weinstein Should Matter: A Conversation with Ken Auletta

In spite of the supposed transparency of the internet age, more and more we live in the age of complicity. Last month we saw it with the trove of documents and stories that came to light about UBER. Tim Miller’s recent book about Trump's enablers shows how it’s happened repeatedly in the White House, just as Michel Lewis showed us, several years ago, how it happened on Wall Street in the face of the 2008 financial crisis.For 20 years in Hollywood, the complicity around the actions of Harvey Weinstein was airtight.What is it about Hollywood and Wall Street and politics that encourages and even condones such complicity in bad behavior?Long-time media journalist Ken Auletta tells the thirty-thousand-foot view in telling the story of Harvey Weinstein, his rise and fall, through the lens of his enablers and his victims in his new bookHollywood Ending: Harvey Weinstein and the Culture of Silence.My conversation with Ken Auletta: Get full access to Talk Cocktail Podcast at jeffschechtman.substack.com/subscribe