Gillian Anderson, Bill Clinton, and Me

No matter how advanced and intelligent we think we are, our society still leans into the charismatic leader, the person who holds us captive with their unique glance and attention, putting us under their spell and enthralling us with their attention.

We elect them, we attend their churches, we subscribe to their life philosophies. We can’t get enough of them.

As it turns out, even the rational, scientific Agent Scully is no exception. Gillian Anderson, who portrayed the skeptical, practical FBI agent in The X-Files, found herself…