And to clarify, Allen had been dating her mom for years and was her functional stepdad. This was decades before #metoo. Hollywood was still in its transgressive glory days, reveling in its carte blanche cultural permission to overstep nearly any sexual boundary and take the rest of the country along for the ride. Allen went on to date and then marry Soon-Yi. Isaacson’s interview of Allen reads like a case study in postmodern ethics. Isaacson, one of the best interviewers of our day, calmly but persistently probed Allen’s heart for some kind of regret, apology, or even moral uncertainty, but
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