#MeToo’s Impact Will Stay Strong—Even if Harvey Weinstein Walks Free

Harvey Weinstein, perhaps the #MeToo movement’s most notorious villain, saw his sex-crimes conviction overturned last week, after an appeals court ruled that the trial court judge had improperly allowed in testimony about “uncharged, alleged prior sexual acts.” Weinstein’s 23-year prison sentence was vacated, and whether prosecutors will re-try him remains up in the air.

Weinstein is not a free man. He remains in jail in New York, although his lawyers say he is...