Monica Lewinsky stood on a stage in Vancouver, Canada, in 2015 delivering a TED Talk on the effects of public shaming. Breaking the ice with her audience, she told an anecdote about a young man who hit on her at a Forbes 30 Under 30 Summit. “You know what his unsuccessful pickup line was?” she offered. “He could make me feel 22 again.” The audience laughed: “I am probably the only person over 40 who does not want to be 22 again.” And why should she? At 46, after nearly two decades of living under the dark cloud of the Clinton scandal of the 1990s, Lewinsky has recreated herself as a writer, an anti-bullying advocate, and the owner of a bitingly funny Twitter account. She’s co-producing the third season of FX’s American Crime Story, which will center on the Clinton scandal. Finally, she gets to tell her own story. Lewinsky was the first victim of the internet’s public shaming ritual. That she has come out on the other side of this is an important counterpunch to the online world’s increasing degradation of public discourse. Fear of the Clintons led prospective employers to keep Lewinsky at arm’s length. But now, amid the #MeToo reassessment of Bill Clinton’s sexual misbehavior and Hillary Clinton’s loss in the 2016 election, marking the end of the power couple’s reign, it’s clear that Lewinsky has outlasted the Clintons. The 2015 TED...