Year of the Witch:

Throughout our mostly rural history, witches have been credited with such foul deeds as causing cows to stop lactating, hens to stop laying, vegetable gardens to wilt and crops to fail. 

And, most important of all, they were credited with undoing other people's mistakes, such as extramarital pregnancies. 

Our modern witches have added time travel. These are attempts to go back in time to re-do some of their personal childhood blunders at the expense of their male playmates. The destruction of grown men's reputations seems not to bother them at all. 

Not just any men's reputations. So far, it's been men of wealth and/or prominence. They now have the skills and the means to employ our media, both news and social, to destroy their victims without the presumption of innocence until proven guilty.

And all this without wands, broomsticks and cast iron cauldrons. It's the new magic made easy with the help of media hype and liberal social attitudes.

The year 2018 has a good chance to go down in history as The Year of the Witch.