Wieseltier admits ‘offenses’ against female colleagues; new magazine killed

Leon Wieseltier, a prominent editor at the New Republic for three decades who was preparing to release a new magazine this fall, apologized Tuesday for “offenses against some of my colleagues in the past” after several women accused him of sexual harassment and inappropriate advances.

As those allegations came to light, Laurene Powell Jobs, a leading philanthropist whose for-profit organization, Emerson Collective, was backing Wieseltier’s endeavor, decided to pull the plug on it.