The Starr Report wasn't just about sex; it was about perjury. We seem to be living through an era, however, in which a kind of media version of Gresham's Law grinds on relentlessly, ensuring that any information of value is taken out of circulation, leaving the public to make do with muck. So the report's legal purpose drops from view, leaving only "pornography." So it has been with the Clinton women.

Not merely Monica. But all the other women who've passed through the Clinton vortex. The Clinton camp itself long...