Will the Harvey Weinstein Scandal Change America?

The New Yorker Radio Hour

WNYC Studios and The New Yorker

Politics, Arts, News, Wnyc, Books, David, Storytelling, Society & Culture, Yorker, New, Remnick

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🗓️ 17 November 2017

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

The allegations against Harvey Weinstein have opened the floodgates for women in other industries and walks of life to go public with claims of sexual misconduct—and to be heard instead of dismissed. Ronan Farrow, who broke the Weinstein story for The New Yorker, shares his perspective on the fallout with the staff writer Alexandra Schwartz. And David Remnick talks with the feminist thinker bell hooks, who sees the roots of male violence in patriarchal culture and the way that boys are raised into it. If we don’t understand the male psyche and how we deform it, hooks argues, we will never solve the problem.

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0:00.0	They didn't break that, but they have pretty good access to those people.
0:10.0	She actually heard of her.
0:11.0	She subconsciously mocks that lineage.
0:14.0	So that's happening?
0:15.0	Okay.
0:16.0	It seems like an incredible story here on many fronts.
0:19.0	From One World Trade Center in Manhattan, this is the New Yorker Radio Hour, a co-production
0:24.6	of WNYC Studios and The New Yorker.
0:29.4	Welcome to The New Yorker Radio Hour. I'm David Remnick.
0:32.6	We're experiencing right now something that's got to be almost unprecedented in American
0:37.1	society, across the nation, in entertainment, in media, broadcasting. Right now is something that's got to be almost unprecedented in American society.
0:37.8	Across the nation, in entertainment, in media, broadcasting, technology, the workplace everywhere, even in politics, more and more every day, we see powerful men being accused of sexual harassment and worse, and they're being held to account for it.
0:54.9	Women are speaking up, and they're being believed.
0:58.1	In this wave of allegations, some of the most shocking charges were published here at the New Yorker
1:03.1	about a group of women who talked about their experiences at the hands of the film producer Harvey Weinstein.
1:10.2	Reporting in the magazine recounts behavior by Weinstein that went far beyond harassment.
1:15.4	It went straight to outright rape.
1:17.3	Those were the accusations, and they're denied by Harvey Weinstein.
1:21.6	Ronan Farrow wrote those extraordinary pieces for the New Yorker, and he joined me in the studio
1:26.2	along with Alexandra Schwartz,
1:28.2	who's been covering the effects of the Weinstein scandal in our society.
1:33.1	Ronan, I'd like to start with you, and the issue I'd like to begin with is why, in your
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