In light of the conclusion of the Senate trial of the president, the editors of THE WEEKLY STANDARD asked 22 writers, thinkers, and political actors the following questions: “President William Jefferson Clinton has been impeached and acquitted. What have we learned? What should we do now?”

WHAT WE HAVE LEARNED from the acquittal of Bill Clinton is that the American people are more “disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed” — or by kicking out a president when the economy is strong. But we had reason to know that already.