In some cases, power evaporated after the pandemic: The mightiest CEOs ordered their employees to return to the office and half said “no.” Others are likely keeping a lower profile after Me Too ended the careers of so many of their peers. “But I have never in my life heard anyone in New York City or state politics reference his name and opinion on anything - ever.” “People in Washington care what Jamie Dimon thinks,” says a close adviser to the billionaire class.
Even in finance, the New York industry that reigns above all others and where there is an undisputed captain in the old leader-of-men mold - well, his power is in doubt, too.
The Times is now run by a caretaker editor, and in literature every publisher shrinks before the disaggregated forces of #BookTok. On Broadway and in film, no producer exerts the creative control that Scott Rudin or Harvey Weinstein wielded and abused. At City Hall, a shallow mayor presides over a distinctly unambitious administration.
