Laurene Powell Jobs, the founder of Emerson Collective, had partnered with the literary critic Leon Wieseltier on a new magazine of ideas. CreditSteve Jennings/Getty Images For Techcrunch

I've been reluctant to believe that anything serious will happen here -- in the days of Trump -- over the Harvey Weinstein lurid, disgusting affair. However, as women within companies begin to compare notes in private digital groups, this wave of sexual harassment and sexual assault accusations is becoming oceanic. It's taking down more men than I can keep track of.

It's Steve Jobs widow Laurene Powell Jobs, a leading philanthropist and businesswoman whose for-profit organization, Emerson Collective is making major media investments, who pulled the plug on the new culture magazine about ideas -- called 'Idea'-- with Leon Wieseltier at the helm, writes The New York Times.

Powell Jobs took control of The Atlantic a few months ago.

Wieseltier, a prominent former editor at The New Republic for three decades and a contributing editor to The Atlantic was set to unveil the new magazine next week. “Upon receiving information related to past inappropriate workplace conduct, Emerson Collective ended its business relationship with Leon Wieseltier, including a journal planned for publication under his editorial direction,” the organization said in a statement on Tuesday. “The production and distribution of the journal has been suspended.”

The Atlantic writes:

It wasn’t immediately clear how the allegations first reached Emerson Collective. Wieseltier was named—along with more than five dozen other men who work in journalism or publishing—on an anonymous spreadsheet titled “SHITTY MEDIA MEN” that quietly, and then less quietly, circulated in national media circles last week. (The Atlantic obtained a copy of the spreadsheet, but is not publishing it because the allegations are anonymous and unverified.) Anonymous charges against the men were wide-ranging, and spanned from acting “creepy af” in online conversation—“af” being an abbreviation for “as fuck”—to physical assault and rape. Wieseltier’s alleged misconduct, according to the unverified, anonymous spreadsheet, was “workplace harassment.” It’s not clear whether Emerson Collective saw the spreadsheet.

At the same time, a group of more than a dozen women who once worked at TNRstarted an email thread to discuss their experiences with Wieseltier—and to hatch a plan for how to make those experiences public.

I've never seen so many men at the top dropping like flies. Most of the charges are going undisputed with men apologizing for their bad boy behavior for decades. This may be a seminal moment. ~ Anne