After last week's much-ballyhooed return to Tina's raison d'etre, the royal marriage, last night's episode of Topic A left Henry the Intern feeling a little deflated. Perhaps it was the continued Hillary Clinton speculation that raped young Henry's soul; more likely, though, that it was the roundtable discussion of post-menopausal power streaks. His weekly report follows.

Back from London and countless news cycles from the royal wedding, Tina held her own — but probably not the audience — with a fresh, fun-free edition of "Topic A."

Fortune's Bethany McLean and director Alex Gibney introduced their new film, "Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room." Though the duo knew their stuff —the real story is about arrogant men, not numbers, said Gibney— it was Tina who best sold the documentary. With money-hungry traders building a "macho culture," she said, "it was like the inmates [were] running the asylum," and journalists just drank the Kool-Aid. McLean responded, "We're only as good as our sources... it was really hard to find the vein of skepticism."

Author Salman Rushdie, now the president of PEN America, which is sponsoring this week's New York Festival of International Literature, spoke of writers as the "conscience of a nation." He hopes the festival can "reopen this international dialogue" of "world voices." Tina's a fan: "Bravo for doing this wonderful thing in the city."

Next, former Senator Bob Kerrey filled a few minutes talking about Democrats generally and Hillary specifically. Tina asked, "Can she bring it off?" Kerrey is a believer (surprise) and thinks her nomination is a given. He suggested Hillary's "got a pretty good understanding of red-state males" because she's southern and is "married to a red-state man." Republicans, he said, are "going to have to run hard-right in order to win" their primaries. He thinks John Kerry lost on the issue of national security. When Kerrey said called Tom DeLay "out of control," Tina let her feelings known: "I'd like to see you, or someone like you, saying this with more passion and force." Tina asked if there's a candidacy in his future. "It's possible... I like New York City," he said smiling, but there was no word on his possible mayoral ambitions.

The editor's desk roundtable loved the idea of post-menopausal women upstaging men with their power and drive. Tina asked, "Who are they feeling zesty with?... Sexually, they feel they just can't get a great guy." Author Gail Sheehy said feisty fifty-year-old women should pick up guys in Santa Fe because most New York men are gay, married, or into younger women. Vogue's Julia Reed and CNBC's Tyler Mathisen don't see men rolling over though. Author James Atlas explained, "There is this real struggle on this high level over who gets the power."

Hot picks
Mathisen: Moneyball by Michael Lewis
Sheehy: "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf" at New York's Longacre Theater
Reed: Apple's America by R.W. Apple
Atlas: Herzog by Saul Bellow
Tina: Ladies and Gentlemen, The Bronx is Burning by Jonathan Mahler

The screen said the closing quote was by Tom Peters, but it was actually Army General Eric Shinseki: "If you don't like change, you're going to like irrelevance even less." Will there be a correction next week?