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?”

BILL CLINTON IS SECURE in the White House, Congress is taking a break, and the Republicans, after a noble but failed effort to prove that no man is above the law, are wondering what to do now that the need for policy-making is upon them.