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11/10/17 Sexual Harassment Ain't What It Used to Be
11/03/17 A World Series Star Redeems a Great-Grandfather's Dream
10/27/17 Exposing Hillary's Russia Connection
10/20/17 But Even Men Deserve Due Process
10/16/17 A Great Movie but a Lousy Life
10/09/17 A Bunny, a Burka, Sex and Revolution
09/29/17 Welcome to the Divided States of America
09/25/17 Angela Merkel, No Hillary Look-Alike, Strides Toward a Triumph
09/15/17 The woman scorned, opening old sores
09/08/17 No 'Safe Place' for an Education
09/01/17 Why 'Dunkirk' Is the Hit of the Summer
08/25/17 A Nation Divided By Identity Politics
08/18/17 Scapegoats, Gulls and Google
08/11/17 Nikki Haley: Trump's Cabinet Superstar
08/04/17 Summertime in the Age of the Selfie
07/28/17 When the Most Destructive Words a Boy Can Hear Are 'Be a Man'
07/21/17 The American Divide: Deplorables Vs. Pussyhats
07/14/17 At the Mercy of Media Fakers
07/07/17 When Nationalism Is a Worthy Twin of Patriotism
06/30/17 Beautiful for a Patriot's Dream
06/23/17 Shakespeare Reduced to Rant, Teaching Moment Lost
06/16/17 When the Berlin Wall Began to Crack
06/09/17 Wonder Woman's Safe Space in Alt Reality
06/02/17 Trashing the American Revolution in the Age of Hysteria
05/26/17 Trump's Harsh Message Worth Sending
05/19/17 When the Press Plays 'Gotcha,' Everybody Loses
05/11/17 Mother's Day reflects a certain mixture of hypocrisy with sentimentality
05/05/17 How Bill O'Reilly and Lena Dunham Rode a Cultural Wave to Different Places
04/28/17 How Hillary Doomed Her 'Inevitable Presidency'
04/21/17 With Unexpected Snap, Theresa May Becomes Theresa Will
04/14/17 The Navy's Love Boats Sail Again
04/07/17 The New Sheriff at the U.N.
03/30/17 Sex, gender, confusion and distraction: The millennials are learning that biology, not 'identity,' determines who we are
03/23/17 The Class of '21, in hot pursuit of their Brave New World
03/16/17 When the violent campus reflects a sordid culture
03/09/17 Even Donald Trump isn't a target big enough to satisfy the appetite for radical outrage
03/02/17 The pivot in the Age of Anger
02/24/17 Speaking Trump's Truth to Power
02/16/17 More over and watch out. There's a new Great Divider of society
02/10/17 A Dark Side to Lady Gaga's Dazzle
02/03/17 When the truth is 'twisted by knaves'
01/27/17 Telling the Post-Truth With Alternative Facts
01/20/17 The Better Angels Under Siege
01/13/17 Meryl and Madonna Pour New Whine Into Old Battles
01/06/17 The Intellectual Argument for the Trump Presidency
12/30/16 The Unkindest Cut of All, Right in the Back of Israel
12/23/16 Putin and Trump: a Very Odd Couple
12/16/16 'You're Fired!' Becomes 'You're Hired!'
12/09/16 Shakin' Up the Little Red Schoolhouse
12/02/16 Discarding the Idea of a First Lady
11/25/16 'That's What Freedom Sounds Like'
11/18/16 Massacre at the Gender Gap
11/11/16 When fantasy has nothing on real life
11/04/16 The Corruption of the Public Conversation
10/28/16 The Boys Fall Into the Gender Gap
10/21/16 Why Character Counts in a President
10/14/16 The Presidential Candidates We Deserve
10/07/16 Harsh and Mean --- Politics as Usual
09/30/16 No Camouflage for Character in First Debate
09/23/16 Campaigns Reduced to Cliches
09/16/16 Trading Places in the Homestretch
09/09/16 Hurry up, Please. It's Time
09/02/16 Higher Education Beyond Parody
08/26/16 'Petticoat Politics' Is Still a Dangerous Gam
08/19/16 The Melancholy Summer of '16
08/12/16 When Identity Politics Trump Everything
08/05/16 The Rationed Respect for a Mother's Love
07/29/16 Changing at the Speed of Light
07/22/16 The Campaign Brings Out the Worst in Nearly Everybody
07/15/16 Robots Join the Thin Blue Line
07/08/16 Mourning With a Message for Eli Wiesel
07/01/16 Trump Ignites White Working-Class Revolution
06/24/16 Hip-Hop Civics, as Taught by Trump and 'Hamilton'
06/17/16 When euphemism and evasion cover sin and evil
06/10/16 The Epic Rumble Toward November
06/03/16 The Curse of the College Campus
05/27/16 Politics Becomes Theater of the Absurd
05/20/16 A Hit Job as Transparent as a Bikini
05/13/16 Listening to the 'Unity' Buzz
05/06/16 The Search for Wiggle Room
04/29/16 Andrew Jackson gets a second look after a $20 misunderstanding
04/22/16 The candidates and the Golden Calf
04/15/16 Connecting With the Young Across the Generations Gap
04/08/16 A Bare-Knuckle Brawl of a Campaign
04/01/16 From 'Plato to NATO' in a dangerous world: Students petition for a return to the study of Western
03/25/16 Women are Key to November: What Do They Really Want?
03/18/16 Where can a brokenhearted voter go when November duty arrives?
03/04/16 P.T. Barnum wrote the book on fooling the customer, and Donald Trump is his best student
02/26/16 Prying Women Out of the Kitchen
02/19/16 The outrageous ordinariness of Donald Trump
02/13/16 The Hydra-Headed Monster Stalking Hillary Clinton
02/06/16 Seeking a Spark in New Hampshire
01/29/16 Sometimes It's a Blizzard but Not a Snow Job
01/22/16 When Roughhouse Rhetoric Knocks Out the Eloquently Thoughtful
01/15/16 What Do Women Want This Year?
01/08/15 The Sexual Politics That Hound Hill and Bill
01/04/16 What a Year for Women, for Better and Worse
12/28/15 New movie captures the 'can-do spirit' that puts American ingenuity to the ultimate test
12/18/15 The Antique Feminism of Hillary Clinton
12/11/15 When religious fashion invites suspicion
12/04/15 And Then They Came for the Jews
11/27/15 Finding More Than Faults on the All-American Holiday
11/20/15 The Islamist Challenge to the Culture of Light
11/13/15 The Closing of the American Mouth
11/06/15 How the Debates Became a Morality Play
10/30/15 The Uncivil War Among Women
10/23/15The Robots Are Coming, With Not Much Yet to Say
10/16/15 A Big Hand for the Little Lady
10/09/15 It Ain't Funny, Hillary
10/02/15 Candidates Seek the 'Sweet Spot'
09/25/15 In Carly Fiorina, Hillary meets her match
09/18/15 Rethinking a Run for Joe Biden
09/11/15 There's More to Learning Than a Job Search
09/04/15 Trendy Rage Over Racism
08/28/15 Can Hillary Clinton, as First Grandmother, Light Partisan Fire?
08/21/15 When Private Character Is Exposed in Public Performance
08/14/15 Getting Through the Debate to the American Dream
08/06/15 A few grooming tips for the candidates
07/31/15 Hillary's Unsavory Past Returns --- With Sharp New Teeth
07/24/15 Cowbells, Dog Whistles and the Grand Old Party
07/17/15 Atticus Finch: A literary icon revealed as a man of his time and place, after all
07/10/15 Defining Vulgarity Down
07/03/15 No thanks for these mummeries
06/26/15 The Amazing Grace in Faith and Grief in Charleston
06/19/15 Granny, of all people, has traded places with the wolf
06/12/15 There's no American Pharaoh in This Race
06/05/15 A Death in the Family of Joe Biden
05/29/15 Does a Young Rubio Frighten an Older Hillary?
05/22/15 The Killing of Free Speech
05/15/15 Hey, Michelle, healing is more helpful than harping: FOTUS and the race card
05/08/15 Hil and Hubby: The Bunk Starts Here
05/01/15 Bruce Jenner: Sensationalized Sex Icon of our Confusing Times
04/24/15 The FBI, the Holocaust and Us
04/17/15 The Selling of the New Hillary
04/13/15 When Women Are as Mad as the Men
04/02/15 When Tragedy Stalks the Season of Hope
03/27/15 Hillary and Monica, together again in 'shame and survival'
03/20/15 Bibi as the bulwark against hate
03/13/15 The saboteur of Hillary’s ambitions
03/06/15 Bibi's Bible lesson from Queen Esther
02/27/15 Oscar's gem from across the ocean jolts Hollywood’s glitzy celebration
02/20/15 Looking for a Presidents Day bargain: Learning how the government works would be a start
02/13/15 England's Bewildering Identity Crisis
02/06/15 'Austerity Dominatrix' Confronts 'Sexy Alexi'
01/30/15 Heroes in the Age of the Selfie
01/23/15 'First They Came for the Jews'
01/16/15 The worm in Charlie's apple
01/09/15 When Miss America Was a Jewess
01/02/15 Life can be good in the sunset years, but political concerns grow
12/26/14 When the warmth of family turns into fire
12/22/14 The Hillary-Warren Collision
12/12/14 The feminist rape of reputation
12/05/14 Rapping at the Supreme Court
11/28/14 Cosby's Message Survives Personal Disaster
11/21/14 Reducing Rape to Performance Art
11/14/14 The Taboos Crumble, and Free Speech Is Threatened
11/07/14 Republican Wonder Women Ride the Wave to Washington
11/05/14 When History Didn't End in Germany
10/24/14 Troubled Times for Angela Merkel With the Leading Men in Her Life
10/20/14 A Different Gun Fight at Gender Gap in the 'War on Women'
10/13/14 Gone Is the Girl Who Can't Say 'No'
10/03/14 God, Woman and Free Speech at Yale
09/29/14 War in the Gender Gap Evaporates
09/19/14 The Israelization of Anti-Semitism
09/12/14 The Buck Stops in the White House
09/05/14 A Bird's-Eye View of Extinction
08/29/14 Can an Upstart College With no Frills and no Football Challenge the Elites?
08/22/14 'Death Be Not Proud'
08/15/14 Starving the Soul on Campus When Computer Science Replaces the Classics
08/08/14 A Campaign Grows to Liberate Child Brides in Developing Nations
08/01/14 The Jews Renew vow of 'Never Again'
07/25/14 A Magical Tale of a Boy, a Bible and a Gun in Texas
07/18/14 Living History at Ground Zero
07/11/14 A Tale of Two Moralities
07/04/14 Hard Choices, Hard Questions for Hillary
06/27/14 The Pornification of Young Girl Fashion
06/20/14 Politics of Poetry Deprives Young of Their Heritage
06/13/14 Common Critics for Common Core
06/06/14 The Gallows for a Christian Mother
05/30/14 It's not Sexism; it's Insanity
05/23/14 Beware Feminist Defense of Jill and Hill
05/16/14 No Room on Campus for the Bigot Shakespeare
05/09/14 Wal-Mart Money Builds Wonderland of Art
05/02/14 Roman Reflections on Tragedy and Triumph
04/28/14 A Cold German Spring for Merkel and Putin
04/18/14 Hillary's Campaign for Student Body President
04/11/14 At Last, the Season of Hope
04/04/14 How 'Noah' and Life Imitate Art
03/28/14 The Peril of Over-Protecting our Children
03/21/14 Potholes Ahead for the Class of '18
03/14/14 Millennials Playing the Confidence Game
03/06/14 Oscars' Fantasy on the Left Coast
02/28/14 Reminders of the Price of Survival
02/21/14 Clooney's 'Monuments Men' Rescue Art and History
02/14/14 First Ladies and Second Gentlemen Make Estranged Bedfellows
02/07/14 Sex, Death and Loathing in Hollywood
01/31/14 Hatred of the Jews: More Than the Banality of Memory
01/24/14 Jezebel vs. Vogue: Feminists Now Debate Nudity and Fat
01/17/14 Sharon, Israel and Jewish Wry
01/13/14 Universities Bounce Renaissance Man for Robot Man
01/03/14 Love by the Byte: The Future of Romance
12/25/13 Scapegoating Israel, Again
12/20/13 No Pumpkin for Putin in Ukraine: Reluctant Marriage With Russians
12/13/13 Truth Slips Away in Public Debate
12/06/13 Now You Can't Trust Anyone Over 60
11/29/13 The Turkey Meets A Latke
11/22/13 Catfight at Cheney Corral
11/15/13 Kennedy Assassination Changed Us Forever
11/08/13 The Barrier Between the Geeks and the Suits
11/01/13 Classics for Tots on the Way Up
10/25/13 Superhero Disappears in the High-Tech World
10/18/13 Betrayal is a Game any Number can Play
10/11/13 Shackles for the British Press
10/04/13 Angela Merkel Channeling Margaret Thatcher
09/30/13 After the Massacre: The Blame Game
09/23/13 She's Come a Long way, Baby
09/13/13 THE IMPROBABLE 'G0D IN THE MACHINE'
09/09/13 Check or Checkmate for Obama
08/30/13 Poisoned Minds, Poisoned Bodies in Syria
08/23/13 Wired Connections and Cultural Disconnects
08/16/13 Seeking the ‘Right Thing' in Immigration Reform
08/09/13 Millennials With No Home of Their Own
08/01/13 Weiner in Cap and Bells
07/26/13 High-tech and Humanity: 'English Majors Are What We're Looking For'
07/19/13 Snowden: The Miserable Man Without a Country
07/12/13 Lessons From Our ‘Uneducated' Elders
07/03/13 We, the Almost Chosen People
06/28/13 Spy, Whistleblower, Hero -- and Celebrity
06/21/13 In Germany, A Label for the Jews, Again
06/14/13 'Common Core': Corruption and Correction
06/07/13 Working Moms and Unemployed Dads
05/31/13 When Coaching Lolita Becomes Child Abuse
05/24/13 Barack Obama as the Great Gatsby
05/17/13 Paying for the New Psychiatry
05/10/13 Retro Moms Discover a Mother's Mystique
05/03/13 Revisiting Hatred of the Jews
04/25/13 When Rhetoric Hides the Reality
04/19/13 Deep in the Shallows
04/16/13 New Whine in Old Battles
04/05/13 'The Jew in the Box'
03/29/13 Taking Swipes at the Smartphone Generation
03/22/13 When Not Tying the Knot Is Not Good
03/15/13 Leaning in to Hear the Grrr Become a Growl
03/08/13 Words Are Power
03/01/13 Glamor Swims With Sharks at the Oscars
02/22/13 Genderfication of Adolescence
02/15/13 Plagiarism and Politics in Berlin
02/08/13 Forbidden Advice for Plain Jane in Combat
02/01/13 Hearts and Flowers for Hillary
01/25/13 Diversity With Conceit
01/17/13 Bursting the University Bubble
01/10/13 Poetry on the Potomac
01/04/13 Facing Backward, Facing Forward
12/28/12 Faking It in Art and Politics
12/21/12 Illumination From Medieval Manuscripts
12/14/12 Insourcing to America
12/07/12 Tying the Knot With 'Big Daddy'
11/30/12 Lincoln Re-examined
11/23/12 Big Data Becomes Big Daddy
11/16/12 Of Arms and the Man
11/09/12 The Winning Campaign Advice
11/02/12 Vulgarizing Sexual Politics Down
10/26/12 Rumbling Toward a Knockout
10/19/12 Women Decide for Whom the Buck Stops
10/12/12 Big Bird Lays an Egg
10/0512Taking the Power Punches
09/28/12 Bumps (and Potholes) in the Road
09/21/12 Feminist Fantasies (the Latest)
08/17/12 Letting Granny Speak for Herself
08/10/12 The Age of the Narcissistic Male
08/03/12 The Gaffe's on the Media
07/27/12 Looking for Meaning in a Massacre
07/20/12 Short-circuiting the New Third Rail in Politics
07/13/12 Balancing Power in the Age of Obama
07/06/12 A Fantasy for a Summer's Night
06/29/12 The Fall From Having It All
06/22/12 The Gathering Storm of the Digital
06/15/12 Between Mystique and Failure
06/08/12 Honoring Ike: From Farm Boy to D-Day Architect
06/01/12 Romney's Religion Shapes the Man, Not the Message
05/25/12 Hillary for Spare Tire
05/18/12 Romney Follows the Founding Fathers in Religious Tradition
05/11/12 The Economy Is a Moral Issue
05/04/12 Currency for the 21st Century
04/27/12 Obama knows best
04/20/12 Women Growing up to Be 'Girls'
04/13/12 The Newest Jewish Voices From Germany
04/06/12 Mitt Romney's Rocking Advocate
03/30/12 Cyber-compassion, Learning Shortcuts
03/23/12 The Immoderate Perils in Moderation
03/16/12 Fleeing From Fatherhood
03/09/12 Super Tuesday: Ringside With a Split Decision
03/02/12 Santorum's Theft of True Conservatism
02/24/12 Oscar Reflections of a Smaller America
02/17/12 Lessons From George Washington
02/10/12 Family Values Without the Wink
02/03/12 Romney's Risks in Clean Living --- Voters Expect a Little Sin on a Rap Sheet
01/27/12 Is America in Decline?
01/20/12 Race and Racist Screeds
01/13/12 Transcending the Gaffe
01/06/12 Racing for the Triple Crown
12/30/11 The Social Medium, Not The Message
12/23/11 Grave Thoughts on Grim Reaper
12/16/11 Newt the Historian
12/09/11 Blaming the Victim Again
12/02/11 Sex, Lies and Politics
11/25/11 Filling in the Generation Gaps
11/18/11 When Manly Virtue Died
11/11/11 Digging for Gold
11/04/11:Sexual signals aren't what they used to be
10/28/11: Sexual Politics at the Movies
10/24/11: Turkey's About-Face Toward Islamist East
10/14/11: At Last, Fun on the Hustings
10/07/11: Germany Comes of Age
10/03/11: Mahmoud Abbas Is No Anwar Sadat
09/23/11: Nations United in Annual Israel Mugging
09/16/11: Camelot Revisited: Jackie Spins the Kennedy Era From the Grave
09/09/11: Rising From the Rubble
09/02/11: The Almighty, Politics and Rick Perry
08/26/11:Back to School: Helping Boys Man-up in Reading
08/19/11: Wanted: Ideas That Work
08/12/11: Remembering the Shame
08/05/11: The Evil Mind of the Mass Murderer
07/29/11: In Praise of Tabloids
07/22/11: Bachmann Inside the Ring at Last
07/08/11: Shaping Citizens, Saving Souls
07/01/11: Video Violence vs. Free Speech
06/24/11: Don't Know Much About History
06/10/11: David Mamet Turns Right
06/03/11: The Frenchman Has No Clothes
05/27/11: An Unhappy Landing for Daniels
05/20/11: Defining Deviancy Down, Way Down
05/13/11: Memory and Celebration in Israel
05/06/11: Snapshots From a Watershed Weekend
04/29/11: Eichmann's Evil No Longer Banal
04/22/11: A Melting Pot Gone Cold
04/15/11: Women's Work Is Never Done . . .
04/08/11: Crashing Into College
04/01/11: Texting Teen Sex
03/25/11: Dressing Like Little Hookers
03/18/11: The Media are the Messages
03/11/11: Tina Misses the Story
03/04/11: Bargaining Over a Flawed Product
02/25/11: The King vs. The Geek
02/18/11: Superstar Meets Supermom
02/11/11: Not a faux democracy
02/04/11: Good Writing Needs a Tiger Mom
01/28/11: A New Flavor of Tea
01/21/11: Would James Madison Play Video Games?
01/14/11: Changing How We Think
01/07/11: Boomers Back to the Future
12/31/10: True Grit Redux
12/24/10: Snow on Hitler's Parade
12/17/10: A Night With the Animals
12/10/10: Hillary's Unexpected Good Fortune
12/03/10: Cultivating Homegrown Terror
11/25/10: Counting Our Mixed Blessings
11/19/10: No Dancing, Please
11/12/10: Reviving Three Little Words
11/05/10: A Reprise of the Goblins
10/29/10: All Spooks Beware
10/22/10: High Heels and High Hopes
10/15/10: Paging Clark Kent
10/08/10: Dorky Digital and 'the New Cool'
10/04/10: Money's Dreamless Sleep
09/27/10: Reading the Tea Leaves
09/17/10: The View Beyond Ground Zero
09/03/10: Little Girls and Mad Men
08/27/10: Common Sense for Sacred Ground
08/20/10: Battle of the Bookists
08/18/10: The New Dance on a Pinhead
08/06/10: Down to the Sea in Discontent
07/30/10: Growing Up with POTUS
07/23/10: When Burly Becomes Surly
07/16/10: Summer Becomes Electronic
07/09/10: Wonder Woman Behind the Curves
07/02/10: Something to Light a Firecracker About
06/25/10: Scapegoating Israel
06/18/10: The Human Face on History
06/11/10: Fear the Intellectual
06/04/10: With Friends Like These
05/28/10: Turning Against Israel
05/21/10: High Tea in the Wilderness
05/14/10: Researching Good and Evil
05/07/10: Terrorizing Our Rights
04/30/10: Getting to the Point of Learning
04/23/10: Making War Over History
04/16/10: Stopping the Secular Socialist Machine
04/09/10: Toward a New Capitalism
04/02/10: Pass the Gefilte Fish but Don't Expect the Enemy To Pass Over Israel
03/26/10: Politics vs. Principle
03/17/10: Deeply Negative Signals
03/12/10: Two Votes for Life
03/05/10: A Movie to Make Us Proud
02/26/10: Beyond the Statistics of Cancer
02/19/10: Sending a Woman for a Man's Work
02/12/10: Reflections on a Redesigned Valentine
02/05/10: A Perfect Day for Salinger
01/29/10: David Plouffe Needs a Friend
01/25/10: Scott Brown, Just in Time
01/15/10: Can the Internet Change How You Think?
01/08/10: When War Is Not Metaphor
01/01/10: Beauty in the Beast
12/25/09 Feats of Clay, Exposed
12/18/09 When Spiritual Elevation Is the Law
12/11/09 The Roguish Success of Sarah Palin
11/27/09 Reflections Over the Turkey
11/20/09 Polishing the Palin Mettle
11/13/09 Deaf Ears, Dumb Voters
11/06/09 A Fallen Wall for Fallen Man
10/30/09 Home economics reduced to economics
10/23/09 An Inconvenient Rebuttal
10/16/09 The Nobler Nobels
10/09/09 Sense and Sexuality
10/02/09 A Revolution Too Far
09/25/09 When Defenses Go Down
09/18/09 It's Multicultural, Stupid
09/11/09 Learning Is No Picnic, Buster
09/04/09 No Requiem for a Twitching Corpse
08/28/09 Obama's Bummer of a Summer
08/21/09 Cheating the Least Among Us
08/14/09 Finally, time for contemplation
08/07/09 Death in the Casino
07/31/09 A Shooting Star Dims
07/24/09 The Most Famous Woman in America You Never Heard of
07/17/09 When a Tweet Is Not Enough
07/10/09 Palin juggles two parties
07/03/09 Will we never learn?
06/26/09 Lessons From a Past Protest
06/19/09 Glass Ceilings Aren't Glass Slippers
06/12/09 A Bad Week for Old Blighty
06/05/09 No Slouching Toward Confirmation
05/28/09 An appeal to survival ethics
05/22/09 A courtship for Bibi and Obama
05/15/09 When Shame Yields to Resilience
05/08/09 Souter, Specter and a Soft Shoe
05/01/09 The Banality of Preening
04/24/09 Honor Thy Veterans
04/17/09 Calling Shots Requires Precision
04/13/09 Mom in Chief as Marie Antoinette
04/03/09 Cultivating her own garden
03/27/09 Obama's indelicate exposure
03/20/09 Red meat for dinner
03/13/09 Women's Work Is Never Done
03/06/09 Slings and Arrows on the Way
02/27/09 Royalty Ain't What It Used to Be
02/20/09 Obama Meets the real Hamilton
02/13/09 Waking From the Dream
02/06/09 An Obama Effect on Learning
01/30/09 A forked tongue over Gaza
01/23/09 The pomp passes, circumstance lingers
01/16/09 We're all ears
01/09/09 The Sleeping Children of Israel
01/02/09 Out with the old
12/19/08 An empty stocking for Frau Merkel
12/12/08 Racism in the Public Schools
12/05/08 Lessons from Lincoln
11/28/08 Thanksgiving in transition
11/21/08 Lessons from the Vampire
11/14/08 From victim to victor in black America
11/07/08 The Triumph of Hope
10/31/08 Bile, Rage and Sarah Palin
10/24/08 A crowded endorsement game
10/17/08
The Irrational Exuberance of November
10/13/08 There's something about Sarah
10/03/08 The curtain on the last act
09/26/08 The Pancake People
09/19/08 Welcome, NOW, to the third stage of feminism
09/15/08 The Sarah Palin squeeze
09/05/08 What do women want now?
08/29/08 Convention(al) reflections
08/22/08 The Lady Dithered
08/15/08 Lessons from literature
08/11/08 Hardball and Hard Calls
08/04/08 Tinseltown transformations
07/28/08 Distractions for Obama in Berlin
07/18/08 Spectacle in Berlin
07/11/08 Halftime entertainment
07/04/08 Sparklers for the Fourth
06/27/08 Heart of Darkness
06/20/08 Death, Be Not Proud The Poets and a Media Hero Dying Young
06/13/08 American Politics Through a Glass, Darkly
06/06/08 A Path to Purpose
05/30/08 Labor Pains in London
05/23/08 Rock the Ignorance
05/16/08 Up Close and Public
05/09/08 Playing Performance Politics
05/02/08 A Rising Tide of Ignorance
04/25/08 Not quite road kill: Hillary wins what was lost before'
04/22/08 The Living Legacy of Maggie Thatcher: How the Politics of Conviction Saved Britain
04/17/08 Pols trivializing faith with superficiality
04/10/08 The Ignorant Fool's Errand: How We're Encouraging the High School Dropouts
04/07/08 Teaching Violent Intolerance: The Tiny Ticking Time bombs in the Middle East
04/03/08 Politics is Sexual: Body Language Tells the Candidates' Stories
03/31/08 Age as an Asset: John McCain's Appeal to the Boomers
03/27/08 Back to the Future: The Fondling Father Cues Our Politics
03/24/08 When the Past is Past: Some Bad Things are Dead and Buried
03/20/08 Know Thy Founding Fathers: Flesh, Blood and Real History on the TV Screen
03/17/08 Up Close and Politically Personal: Remorse is the True Measure of Private Redemption
03/13/08 Disorder on Another Border: The Latin Migration Becomes Universal
03/10/08 The Revenge of Older Women: Barack Obama as Merely the Latest New Thing
03/06/08 The Assassins Among Us: An Unspoken Fear Stalks the Presidential Hustings
03/03/08 An Old Argument in New Clothes: Popular Prosperity Still Rankles Certain Elites
02/28/08 Looking for Mr. Good Enough
02/25/08 This just in from Venus: Hillary's the tough one, Obama's the nice one
02/21/08 Tempest in a Pastepot: Are We Listening to What Candidates Say?
02/18/08 Perils of identity politics: Hillary's learning something about loyalty
02/14/08 In Search of a Scenario: Hollywood's Version of the Campaign
02/11/08 Voter, Know Thyself: A Stereotype Can Cripple a Candidate
02/07/08: John McCain as Judah Maccabee?
02/04/08: Don't Mess With Mr. In-Between: The Purveyors of Gloom and Doom are Wrong
01/31/08: Making Estranged Bedfellows
01/28/08: Life in the Jungle: The Candidates Have a Lot to Learn
01/24/08: Looking for Mr. Perfect
01/21/08: Cool tools for living: women look to hardware, not software
01/17/08: Politics of gender and race
01/14/08: The Not-So-Great Debaters
01/10/08: Still Searching for the Beef
01/07/08: Politics in the post-Gutenberg Age
01/03/08: Searching for honorable ambition
12/31/07: A mixed review for '07
12/27/07: Huckabee on the Chautauqua
12/24/07: A tree in Amsterdam
12/20/07: Faith beyond the Atlantic
12/10/07: Isn't that just like a man?
12/06/07: Wanted: A Five-Cent Synthesis
12/03/07: The Nobody's Perfect contest
11/29/07: The Nobody's Perfect contest
11/26/07: Writing off the wall
11/21/07: Merci, Danke, Cheers and Happy Thanksgiving
11/19/07: The Politics of irrational ideology
11/15/07: Recalling my Mailer crush
11/12/07: The Wall came tumbling down
11/08/07: The cut-rate pursuit of power
11/05/07: Permanent adolescents go public
11/01/07: The Kosher Conspiracy
10/29/07: The Values Voter is us
10/25/07: Has she really come a long way, baby?
10/22/07: A long trail to November
10/18/07: Let's hear it for the old fogies
10/15/07: The Tortuous Art of Compromise
10/11/07: Huck Finn on the High Court
10/08/07: Getting the last laugh
10/03/07: The College Conundrum
09/26/07: The Frivolity of Evil
09/24/07: Not much ado about history
09/20/07: Re-opening the American mind
09/17/07: When decency goes AWOL
09/10/07: The politics of tears
09/06/07: The games children play
09/04/07: A mirror to ourselves
08/23/07: For the love of geeks
08/20/07: Falling into the gender gap
08/16/07: The Facebooking of America
08/13/07: False Badge of Courage
08/09/07: Troublesome Young Men
08/06/07: First Family wins and wounds
08/02/07: Friendship in a Facebook
07/30/07: Light from the Prince of Darkness
07/26/07: Talking a Good Game (Show)
07/23/07: The New Victorians
07/09/07: The Culture, Stupid
07/05/07:
Gorillas in the nursery
07/02/07:
Washington on the Tiber
06/27/07:
What Tony learned
06/25/07:
V is not for victory
06/21/07:
Searching for Identity
06/18/07:
Sour and in Decline
06/14/07:
The clowns and the chancellor
06/11/07:
Object of love all sublime
06/07/07: Buy one, get one free
06/04/07: Peanut Butter and Free Speech
05/29/07: A new woman in combat. Not!
05/25/07: Pomp and prejudice
05/21/07: The personal becomes political
05/17/07: The media is the politics
05/14/07: A manly politics
05/10/07: A Sudden French Kiss
05/07/07: Finding an authentic voice
05/03/07: Slouching Toward 2084
04/30/07: Celebrating survival at 59
04/26/07: Peril in Unwatched Madness
04/23/07: When Stereotypes Stalk Tragedy
04/19/07: When reality is murder
04/16/07: T'ain't funny, Imus
04/12/07: From Paella to Politics
04/09/07: A job for Don Quixote
04/05/07: A boat ride to trouble
04/02/07: A crime most foul
03/29/07: Cutting through stereotypes
03/26/07: Moral equivalence revived
03/21/07: Mixing marriage and politics
03/19/07: Red Meat, Strong Drink
03/15/07: Much Ado About A Lot
03/12/07: Nobody here but us believers
03/08/07: A long way backwards
03/05/07: Moving away from make-believe
03/01/07: Back to bare knuckles
02/27/07: Sandra Dee and Britney Spears
02/22/07: The Inconvenient Truth
02/19/07: Female courage unveiled
02/15/07: Dr. Faust and Other Females
02/12/07: I'm in denial, you're in denial
02/08/07: An Eye (Contact) for an Eye
02/05/07: A Back on the menu
02/01/07: A Tale of Two Cities
01/29/07: Prophecies of Doom
01/24/07: The singles without bliss
01/22/07: But Is It Good for the Jews?
01/18/07: Protesting a library
01/15/07: The disputed urge to surge
01/11/07: Sexual politics and power
01/08/07: Can conservatism survive?
01/04/07: Weaving a web of wonder
01/02/07: New Year designs for happiness
12/28/06: Come back, little babies
12/26/06: Looking for the who of you
12/18/06: Iran and the big lie
12/14/06: German history after the Holocaust
12/04/06: Lifestyles of the poor and anonymous
11/30/06: Why satire's not for everyone
11/27/06: Keeping John Bolton
11/22/06: No Thanksgiving in Darfur
11/20/06: More than Peace in Our Time
11/16/06: The bigotry of worn-out stereotypes
11/13/06: The path of good intentions
11/08/06: It wasn't Nuremberg, but it wasn't bad
11/06/06: Who says college boys are smart?
11/02/06: Keeping up with the Joneses
10/30/06: When Jews is news
10/26/06: Saints, sinners and bigots
10/24/06: The Republicans' egg-scrambler
10/19/06: War becomes more than a game
10/16/06: Turning swords into bombs
10/12/06: The journalist and the jihadi
10/09/06: Heart, soul and different brains
10/05/06: When the medium is the message
10/01/06: Mozart sacrificed to Allah
09/28/06: Shofar, so good
09/25/06: Lions and snakes forever
09/21/06: Misleading by misreading
09/18/06: Vive this difference
09/14/06: An oasis to celebrate
09/11/06: Remembering the blessed terror
09/07/06: Feeding the crocodile
09/05/06: A ride in the divorcemobile
08/24/06: The politics of witchcraft
08/21/06: The hypocrite's halo
08/17/06: Don't you know there's a war on?
08/14/06: Anti-Semitism for dummies
08/10/06: Our defining moment
08/07/06: The English language, A.W.O.L
08/03/06: Small town bigotry
07/31/06: Bearing the burden
07/27/06: The lamentation of the slut
07/24/06: Appeasing contempt of the Jews
07/20/06: Are you being served?
07/17/06: Playing-field justice
07/13/06: The odd couple do Germany
07/10/06: Born to be digital
07/06/06: Fury on a runway
07/03/06: Birthday greetings for a beauty
06/29/06: Leaving Athens and Jerusalem
06/26/06: Grown-ups say the darndest things
06/22/06: America haters, heal thyselves
06/19/06: The pursuit of gratification
06/12/06: Caught with the sticky wicket
06/08/06: Fever and friends at the World Cup
06/05/06: Politics and poetry
06/01/06: Witness against the prosecution
05/29/06: THE LAST BEST HOPE
05/25/06: The shared ideals of a hero
05/22/06: Oppression with a woman's face
05/18/06: More than merely a word
05/15/06: Hillary and Rupert take a swim
05/11/06: The mission we make possible
05/08/06: A new venue for reform
05/04/06: A capital Saturday Night Live
05/01/06: No Snow job for Tony
04/27/06: Attention must be paid to Darfur
04/24/06: Nanny's Guide to Being Nice
04/21/06: Recycling anti-Semitism
04/17/06: The devil in the details
04/12/06: Black and white at Duke
04/10/06: The renewal of Spring
04/06/06: Hef and Barbie growing old together
04/03/06: The rising tide of anti-Semitism
03/30/06: Seig humor
03/27/06: Making babies in Berlin
03/23/06: The world at civil war
03/20/06: Rediscovering the Renaissance
03/16/06: A man's a man, for all that
03/13/06: Failing women of the Third World
03/09/06: Crunch, crunch
03/06/06: Crunch, crunch
03/02/06: When everything bad isn't good
02/27/06: Fall descends on a Summers' day
02/23/06: The best disinfectant
02/20/06: Fighting the Other War
02/16/06: Islam's problem with democracy
02/09/06: A radical who wasn't completely wrong
02/06/06: From Hitler to Hamas
02/02/06: What's love got to do with it?
01/30/06: Shaping the memory of evil
01/26/06: Shaping the memory of evil
01/23/06: When society celebrates suicide
01/19/06: The politics of stereotypes
01/16/06: Destined for the supper dish
01/12/06: The cowboy and the angel
01/09/06: Dangerous questions for dangerous times
01/05/06: Queries for the queering of academe
01/03/06: Turning Munich into a movie
12/29/05: Hope and joy in the shadows
12/26/05: The bumpy ride to Berlin
12/12/05: Welcome to the culture of rudeness
12/08/05: A revolution without a man to love
12/05/05: Going for the knockout
12/01/05: Assimilation, American style
11/28/05: The naked truth on campus
11/23/05: The stress-free turkey
11/17/05: A tangled web of lies
11/14/05: The love song of Maureen Dowd
11/10/05: Baghdad on the Seine
11/07/05: Trumping Moses and Matthew
11/03/05: What do women really want?
10/31/05: A history lesson from Rosa Parks
10/27/05: Taking care, taking charge
10/24/05: Religion and the public squared
10/20/05: The evil virus upon us
10/17/05: The lady no longer in waiting
10/13/05: The swingin' pendulum of feminism
10/10/05: Politics, sex and the court
10/06/05: The danger of talking too much
10/03/05: Taking care in an aging society
09/29/05: Making the Muslims love us
09/26/05: Death of a salesman
09/22/05: Looking through the dome, darkly
09/19/05: Exploiting the humanity in the storm
09/16/05: The menace of multiculturalism
09/12/05: Echoes of a Reagan romance
09/08/05: No Paper Moon in New Orleans
09/06/05: The high waves of emotion
08/25/05: When the Xbox replaces the sandbox
08/22/05: Steel from the Iron Lady
08/18/05: Mud wrestling for ladies
08/15/05: The devil in the details of Holocaust images
08/11/05: Apple pie, pot roast and survival
08/08/05: Designing an intelligent debate
08/04/05: Second chance for Western Civ
08/01/05: Between the Sex Pistols and the Koran
07/28/05: Reviving middle-class values
07/25/05: In the tradition of Justice Holmes
07/21/05: The medium is the message
07/18/05: Snapping fingers at African aid
07/14/05: Terror through the dome
07/11/05: Remembrance and remorse in Berlin
07/07/05: Eternal vigilance is the price
07/04/05: Triumph of the rabble
06/30/05: When society is the asylum
06/27/05: When intolerance stalks faith
06/23/05: For whom the wedding bells toll?
06/20/05: The palooka was a lady
06/15/05: The MJ in the rest of us
06/13/05: Look who's shaking things up now
06/09/05: The gathering storm over China
06/06/05: Freedom to be illiterate
06/02/05: Crushed in a stampede
05/30/05: Honor thy soldiers
05/23/05: More than the Koran
05/19/05: Lessons from ancient white males
05/13/05: John Bolton and his discontents: What does psychobabble have to do with it?
05/12/05: The many voices of World War II
05/09/05: There goes the runaway bride
05/05/05: Laura's Laff Riot
05/02/05: Poetry and Politics: To filibuster or Not to bluster
04/28/05: Supping at the children's table
04/25/05: The new Pope, a good egg, Benedict
04/21/05: Feminist mystique and sourpuss power
04/18/05: Playing G-d on the slippery slope
04/14/05: The President and the Princess charm their critics
04/11/05: The Fonda syndrome
04/07/05: A man for all faiths
04/04/05: Closing of the university mind
03/31/05: Showtime in Washington
03/28/05: Cautious optimism in Israel
03/24/05: The modern mercy death
03/21/05: Haunted by history
03/17/05: Flipping over Condi
03/14/05: A second draft of history
03/10/05: Hissy fits and real progress
03/07/05: Insult and free speech
03/03/05: Peeled eyes on an illusion
02/28/05: Rodney Dangerfield at Harvard
02/24/05: Reality mugs us all
02/21/05: Men from La Mancha
02/17/05: Patient Camilla and the graying of Camelot
02/03/05: The green 'state of fear'
01/31/05: Madonna and Hillary?
01/27/05: Remembering Auschwitz at the U.N.
01/24/05: Seeking diversity at Harvard
01/20/05: The reality of American idealism
01/17/05: The faith of a President
01/13/05: Politics and Divinely-ordained tragedies
01/10/05: Daddy, where's our conscience?
01/06/05: Beware of American shopping carts
12/30/04: Double-edged politics
12/30/04: Revering and reinventing history
12/27/04: The new great generation
12/23/04: From Gutenberg, a salute to Google
12/20/04: Orange Alert in the classroom
12/13/04: The new whine from sour grapes
12/10/04: The dark side of the lights
12/03/04: Tom Paine, but no pajamas
12/02/04: Tilting for the children
11/29/04: What do 'Desperate Housewives' want?
11/25/04: Eat, drink, be merry
11/22/04: Who's 'in' and what's 'out'
11/15/04: Yearning for the middle
11/11/04: I yam what I yam
11/08/04: Slouching toward Canada
11/04/04: Gulliver's travails in the new Lilliput
11/01/04: 'GIVE 'EM HELL' FOR HARRY
10/25/04: Talking softly, with a big schtick
10/21/04: Radical chic and the hip hustle
10/18/04: Beauty in the eye of the voter
10/14/04: A long way from Kabul, baby
10/12/04: Fear and loathing in the Fatherland
10/06/04: Old Europe thinks it knows the U.S. it doesn't 10/04/04: It's foreign policy, Stupid
09/29/04: Sizing up the 'wives of'
09/27/04: A pilgrimage to the mall
09/23/04: Days of atonement and renewal
09/20/04: A war that won't go away
09/13/04: Aligning Mars and Venus
09/08/04: Family values and foreign policy
09/07/04: From pop to punk at a Grand Old Party
09/02/04: 'Amazing Grace' in the Garden
08/30/04: No time for mixed messages
08/19/04: Poetry on the Potomac
08/16/04: Asking the tough questions
08/09/04: When warriors become writers
08/02/04: Flip-flopping for the Jews
08/02/04: It's foreign policy, stupid
07/29/04: Candidates' kids and family values
07/26/04: No cosmetic makeovers, please
07/22/04: The mommy party's tea party
07/19/04: The high cost of malpractice
07/15/04: Much ado about a lot
07/12/04: The Pretty-Boy Candidates
07/08/04: Virility in transition
07/06/04: Seeking an optimism transplant
07/01/04: Flying the unhappy skies
06/28/04: Liposuction for 'Sex and the City'
06/24/04: Of wonkery and women
06/21/04: One noisy nation, under …?
06/17/04: Return of the wrong robots
06/14/04: A way out of the Balkans
06/09/04: Valentines from a president
06/07/04: Mourning in America: The enduring legacy of Ronald Reagan
06/03/04: Babes in Berlin, 60 years
06/01/04: When Moore is a lot less
05/28/04: Celebration and sadness on the Mall
05/24/04: No magic bullets in real life
05/20/04: The challenges to the class of '04
05/17/04: An echo from an earlier war?
05/13/04: Listening high and low in Washington
05/10/04: Male humiliation, Muslim rage
05/06/04: The good, the bad and the ugly
05/03/04: Biography written in the stars
04/29/04: Where women can't march
04/26/04: Downsizing the 'victim'
04/22/04: Defining deviancy up
04/19/04: How TV can 'rewire' brains of tiny tots
04/15/04: Changing fashions in the quest for manhood
04/11/04: Textbook terror in a visual age
04/08/04: The doctors of myth and fantasy meet bioethics
04/05/04: From the Holocaust to Saddam
04/01/04: Hope and fear in Germany
03/30/04: The return to the hive: queen bees and their unexpected choices
03/25/04: Searching for the alpha male
03/25/04: Searching for the alpha male
03/22/04: Questions for bioethics in poetry and prose
03/18/04: When Europe splits, mischief thrives
03/15/04: The ranks of the good girls are growing
03/11/04: Queer eye for straight courtship
03/08/04: Taking aim at the arms suppliers in the culture war
03/04/04: Hell hath no fury like a poet scorned
02/26/04: Sexhausted with 'Sex and the City'
02/23/04: 'The times they are a-changin' again
02/19/04: Candidates: 'Start your engines'
02/17/04: It's the context, stupid
02/12/04: 'Til death do us party
02/09/04: Is there a doctor in the (White) House
02/05/04: Janet and a shameless, ahem, culture
01/26/04: Amnesia marks a grim anniversary
01/26/04: Perils of heat in a cool medium
01/22/04: Civilization and lip-gloss morality
01/20/04: The witless challenge the wits
01/15/04: Serving guest workers at the American table
01/12/04: Curbing Cuba's happy holidays
01/09/04: Filling the prescription for anger
01/05/04: Life, literature and intellectuals
01/02/04: The fighting person of the year
12/29/03: Seeking perfection in the new year
12/26/03: A little junk food for thought
12/22/03: A word to wise benefactors: Endow, but verify
12/18/03: Milk-liver'd cowardice in the braggart's blood
12/15/03: Yearning for a glimpse of shocking stocking
12/11/03: Standing on the shoulders of Lincoln
12/08/03: An ancient contagion thrives
12/04/03: When they're too young or too old
12/01/03: Winning the war with words
11/27/03: Remembering things past
11/24/03: Blair, Bush and that special relationship
11/20/03: Chartering the future
11/17/03: The battle of the blondes
11/13/03: In search of a British Moses
11/10/03: Focusing on 'the one big thing'
11/06/03: Puff potatoes in the bedroom
11/03/03: 'What fools these mortals be?'
10/30/03: A religious buzz in the Windy City
10/23/03: Biotechnology and the pursuit of happiness
10/21/03: How to prosper though stupid
10/16/03: Rites and wrongs in a post 9/11 scenario
10/13/03: Lighting the fire for free speech
10/09/03: Tears for the sacrifice
10/02/03: More homework for kids with cash
10/02/03: Rearming the president
09/29/03: Building biceps for the body politic
09/25/03: A lesson from Hitler's hideaway
09/22/03: Throwing money at the schoolhouse frauds
09/18/03: When the old-time religion seems new
09/15/03: When economics becomes stylish
09/11/03: Arming the human spirit to fight back
09/08/03: The ivy tower of babble
09/04/03: Revisiting the Itsy Bitsy Spider
09/02/03: A different kind of party in Savannah
08/28/03: Barren lives without literature
08/25/03: What (men) do women want?
08/04/03: High tech, but still a holiday
08/04/03: The male descending (from Mt. Sinai)
07/31/03: The Ugly American in the shadows
07/24/03: Let granny drive if she can
07/21/03: The dead end on the road to peace
07/17/03: The media, as usual, is the message
07/14/03: Looking for Mr. (Word) Perfect
07/10/03: Dishonor on the campus
07/07/03: What's a granny worth?
07/03/03: When red, white and blue is brown, black and white
06/30/03: Medicine to 'The Sound of Music'
06/26/03: When Al Gore meets Al Franken
06/23/03: Kicking depression and getting high
06/19/03: When the Dowdies confront the mommies
06/16/03: Humanities are on Orange Alert
06/12/03: Hillary Clinton as 'American Idol' and 'Survivor'
06/09/03: Pop finds its groove on memory lane
06/05/03: High tech hubris: When a person becomes a product
06/02/03: How young conservatives got their groove back
05/29/03: How males became the 'second sex'
05/27/03: History in the eye of the reporter
05/22/03: Ditches and detours on the road to peace
05/19/03: Times are no longer a-changin'. They done changed: The conservative ladies do Gotham
05/15/03: Norman Mailer, down for the count
05/12/03: Betting on Bennett
05/08/03: Ammunition in the 'culture wars'
05/05/03: The stench of Castro's utopia
05/01/03: Expanding the base of the neocons
04/28/03: Expert: Americans are naive to believe that Islam is moderate
04/25/03: Dumb and dumber
04/21/03: War in the eyes of the beholders
04/14/03: The dawning of a new era
04/10/03: Poetry and the art of war
04/07/03: Material girl not in vogue with new video
04/03/03: A cruel tyranny at home
03/31/03: Yertle the turtle goes to war
03/27/03: In New Yawk, "battlefield chic"
03/24/03: The right stuff of civics
03/20/03: A new front in the war (of the sexes)
03/17/03: The weak against the thong
03/13/03: The mousse that roared
03/10/03: Make Love Not War (Flirting Not Fighting)
03/06/03: A secular cathedral for Ground Zero
03/03/03: The demonstrators doth demonstrate too much
02/27/03: 'No man is an island'
02/24/03: Most Americans still want people of faith as leaders
02/20/03: The jihad against the textbooks
02/18/03: The night of the armies of the poets
02/13/03: Love and war
02/10/03: A rising tide of conservative self-confidence
02/06/03: From the Wright brothers to the 'Right Stuff'
02/03/03: High Noon at the White House
01/30/03: When reality degrades us all
01/27/03: Confronting the forbidden gender gap
01/24/03: Free Mickey Mouse (and Robert Frost)
01/21/03: To be or not to be an english professor
01/13/03: No more 'sex' in the city
01/09/03: Celebrating compassionate cool
01/06/03: It's the culture, stupid
01/02/03: Profiles in perverted courage
12/30/02: There's a doctor in the senate
12/26/02: Body worship in the temples of secularism
12/23/02: A Lott of diversion, with no dignity
12/19/02: It's Sunday Night Live
12/16/02: Sex, lies and a prime minister's wife
12/12/02: Watch out for the fruitcake at the office party
12/09/02: The soft bigotry of campus paternalism
12/05/02: 'White guilt' and affirmative action
12/02/02: Out of the closet, at Stanford
11/21/02: "Grow old along with me"
11/18/02: When having a baby is like having a face-lift
11/14/02: The imprint of the president? Dumbo he ain't
11/11/02: The times, at last they are a-changing
11/07/02: Macho girls and vanishing males
10/28/02: Jihad and the culture war against the West
10/24/02: No islands left in a global world
10/22/02: Reason and logic, at war with terror
10/17/02: Memphis in black, white and blues
10/14/02: Out of the Miss America closet
10/10/02: Down to the whine cellar
10/07/02: Medicine men at NIH
10/03/02: Irritable men and mice in the divots
09/30/02: Bulls, bears and irritable rams on Wall Street
09/26/02: At Harvard, finally some responsibility
09/23/02: Heaven help the Blokes!
09/19/02: A fascination with evil, sung by a Soprano
09/17/02: High Holy Days: A call for the work ahead
09/09/02: Martinis and circuses for Sept. 11
09/05/02: 'Appeasement, then and now'
09/03/02: In search of moral tone
08/29/02: Shaking and baking with great balls of fire
08/19/02: Prescription drugs to have and to have not
08/15/02: Charlton Heston's most difficult role
08/12/02: Nourished on forbidden fruit
08/08/02: The rising tide of anti-Semitism
08/05/02: George Washington gets a high-tech facelift
08/01/02: When law isn't rocket science
07/29/02: Long memories and short fuses
07/25/02: When human cloning is not science fiction
07/22/02: When a Muppet becomes HIV-positive
07/18/02: 'Road to Perdition,' without a mother's love
07/15/02: When virtue can be its own reward
07/11/02: Investing in a culture of character
07/08/02: When the rich and famous slip on banana peels
07/05/02: Celebrating the personal, not the political
07/01/02: When a suicide bomber fails
06/27/02:
No common sense and no love of country
06/25/02: The multiple faces of anti-Semitism
06/20/02: When the movie improves on history
06/17/02: Why the United States is indivisible
06/13/02: Refusing to sit still for sat exam silliness
06/10/02: The dead white males, they are a changin'
06/06/02: There goes the bride
06/03/02: Fanning the flames of anti-Semitism
05/30/02: High noon in Paris
05/20/02: Misrepresentations of motherhood
05/19/02: The 'achilles heel' of history education
05/14/02: The sophistry of suicide
05/09/02: New York, New York, Our Town
05/03/02: A different kind of "what if?"
04/30/02: Hope and despair in the Middle East
04/26/02: 'Ally McBeal' enters a blind alley
04/24/02: Why French brie isn't kosher
04/18/02: No chicken soup for the Muslim hearth
04/14/02: Feminist winners sing the blues
04/11/02: Making Sept. 11 fireproof
04/08/02: Targeting tots for TV
04/05/02: When words are the weapons
04/01/02: What to do when 'I Do' becomes 'I Don't'
03/31/02: Recipes for disaster in the Middle East
03/25/02: The cleavage in higher education
03/21/02: Truth, lies and Oscars
03/14/02: The politics of art
03/14/02: When charity starts with the government
03/11/02: Cookies for Cokie, Or: Disney animates more than Mickey Mouse
03/07/02: Documenting the ridiculous and the sublime
03/04/02: Mean girls in the mean streets of middle school
02/27/02: Remembering to color inside the lines
02/25/02: The ugly straw American
02/21/02: Conquering fear with the little red-headed guy
02/14/02: Museum green -- the red, the black and the blue
02/07/02: When self-esteem runs out of steam
02/04/02: From the old, strength for the new
01/31/02: Rewriting the past to politicize the present
01/28/02: Money and mourning at Ground Zero
01/24/02: Politics, money and the purchase of history
01/21/02: The old-time religion at the schoolhouse
01/17/02: When a Palestinian house is not a home
01/14/02: Televising the trial of a terrorist
01/10/02: George Bush through a glass, brightly
01/07/02: Beauty (shop) in the eye of the Muslim
01/03/02: Living 2002 in house and heart
12/31/01: A kick from champagne and a kiss
12/27/01: Of faith and a president's intelligence
12/24/01: Tilting, reluctantly, toward Israel
12/20/01: The season of snowflakesand 'The Simpsons'
12/17/01: Artistic spirit triumphs over Taliban
12/13/01: Trimming ideology Left and Right
12/10/01: Arafat at Auschwitz
12/06/01: Remember Pearl Harbor -- and Sept. 11
12/03/01: The last rites for chivalry
11/29/01: When Hollywood wants to wave the flag
11/26/01: Afghan gender gap -- an abyss
11/19/01: A clean shave does not a mainstream Muslim make
11/15/01: 'Assisted suicide,' a medical oxymoron
11/12/01: Cultural wars in the war against terrorism
11/08/01: Disarming conflicts in gender gap
11/05/01: Double standards in the war against terrorism
11/01/01: This time, no more Mr. Nice Guy
10/29/01: Anthrax anxiety in an age of terrorism
10/25/01: New York: A tale of two towns
10/22/01: Resurrecting an ancient face of evil
10/18/01: 'Officer Friendly' in the sky and on the land
10/15/01: From the halls of Montezuma to the caves of Afghanistan
10/11/01: Islamic culture -- where terror trumps beauty
10/08/01: Making love -- and war, romance and revenge
10/04/01: Free speech struggles to come of age
10/01/01: Calling Captain Kirk, calling Captain Kirk
09/28/01: The fascist face of Islamic fanaticism
09/24/01: Facing up to the faith
09/20/01: Uncle Sam without a paunch
09/17/01: A new generation of eyewitnesses to terror
09/13/01: Another date to live in infamy --- and resolve
09/11/01: They don't make 'em like Aunt Minnie anymore
09/06/01: There goes the Little League neighborhood
09/04/01: Colin Powell vs. Jesse Jackson
08/30/01: The Pride and Prejudice of Gary Condit
08/20/01: Packaging stars with warning labels
08/16/01: Mortals in the details
08/13/01: Romance in a petri dish
08/09/01: Anti-missile shield madness
08/02/01: The guy in the loin cloth does dishes
08/02/01: The (fortunate) old folks at home
07/30/01: CHINA raises the bar, America loses face
07/26/01: When it's springtime in Beijing
07/24/01: Marriage with impediments
07/19/01: Honoring Reagan's word
07/17/01: Condit is my neighbor
07/12/01: VMI: Ratting out the rats
07/05/01: Lucy in the sky with cataracts
07/02/01: Brits focus on the Bushes --- sort of
06/28/01: Why can't a man be more like a woman?'
06/18/01: Purses for nurses
06/14/01: Free speech alive and well in Dr. Laura
06/11/01: Let them drink Perrier
06/07/01: Double trouble in census silliness
06/04/01: When the Supreme Court putts
05/31/01: Bombing Pearl Harbor, one more time
05/29/01: G-d and Man at Notre Dame and Yale
05/25/01: How Cinderella became Bridezilla
05/21/01: Saving the memorial to Private Ryan
05/17/01: Prom night as 'Some Enchanted Evening'
05/14/01: Bully for you
05/10/01: Segregation in the city
05/07/01: Cultural conflicts in education
05/03/01: Matters of life and death
04/30/01: If music be the food of hate -- sell it
04/26/01: When Dr. Mom is Dr. Seuss
04/23/01: Where have all the daddies gone?
04/20/01: Fashionable discrimination
04/16/01: Reaching for the moon
04/13/01: Who's sorry now?
04/10/01: The details
04/05/01: News that wasn't fit to print
04/02/01: The devil in the legal details
03/29/01: Making marriage glamorous
03/27/01: Crime and punishment on the small screen
03/23/01: When speech isn't free
03/19/01: Russell Crowe doesn't wear a Black Beret
03/15/01: 'The little intimidator' of the breakfast table
03/13/01: "We are asking the Creator for clemency"
03/08/01: Saving El Salvador with dollars and sense
02/27/01: The last cowboys of their craft
02/23/01: When Bubba graduates to Bobo
02/16/01: Clarence Thomas addresses an imperfect world
02/12/01: Ariel Sharon, not by Steven Spielberg
02/07/01: Profaning the sacred with the political
02/05/01: What's the Creator got to do with it?
02/01/01: Live like the snopses, leave like the snopses
01/29/01: It's education, stupid
01/25/01: "You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows"
01/22/01: Poetry and religion in the Bush administration
01/18/01: Ashcroft can't dance (don't ask him)
01/15/01: Clothes make the First Lady
01/11/01: Pity Jerusalem in the 'peace' process
01/08/01: Laying the political race card
01/04/01: 'What women want' in the new millennium
01/02/01: This year, looking ahead is sure sweeter than looking back
12/21/00: Black power with a Republican face
12/21/00: First impressions of two First Ladies
12/18/00: Challenge for the 'better angels of our nature'
12/14/00: What we've lost sight of
12/13/00: Hillary in the lion's den
12/08/00: Return of the 'second sex' on campus
12/04/00: Politics as entertainment today
11/30/00: Winner vs. whiner
11/27/00: Measuring against history
11/23/00: Memories of Thanksgiving past
11/17/00: In defense of the Electoral College
11/16/00: More than one way to win an election
11/13/00: Sexual politics squared
11/09/00: A Middle East legacy
11/06/00: Filling in the dots at campaign's end
11/02/00: His own man in full
10/30/00: The Oval Office, through a glass brightly
10/23/00: There'll always be an England. Maybe.
10/19/00: The celebrity candidate
10/16/00: 'Ladies night' at the second debate
10/12/00: Gore vs. Bush: Volvo vs. Maserati
10/10/00: We weep for Rami for he is dead
10/05/00: Looking at Lieberman from inside the 'ghetto'
10/02/00: Campaigns, candidates, and kissy-face
09/28/00: Laughing and crying over Joe Lieberman
09/21/00: Targeting teenagers for money
09/21/00: Sexual politics in New York
09/18/00: Surviving the stereotypes and debates
09/14/00: Gloria Steinem runs cheerfully into captivity
09/12/00: Sex in the eye of the partisan
09/07/00: 'Sex and death' on the college campus
09/05/00: Joe Lieberman as a 'Menorah Man'
08/31/00: Rising suns of the conventions
08/17/00: Changing icons: From Loretta Young to Hillary Clinton
08/14/00: The Creator returns to the public square
08/10/00: Bursting with pride, but caution too
08/07/00: Brains, beauty and beastly politics
08/03/00: A candidate with a superego
07/31/00: The sizzling Lynne Cheney
07/27/00: The party of the aging Playboys
07/24/00 Hillary drives the Jewish wagon into a ditch
07/20/00 Conservatives gone fishin'
07/17/00: Snoop Doggy Dogg was a founding father, wasn't he?
07/13/00: When a teenager doesn't need a prime minister
07/10/00: Abortion as cruel and unusual punishment
07/06/00: Surviving 'survivor' TV
07/03/00: Independence Day with Norman Rockwell
06/29/00: Here comes 'something old'
06/26/00: Waiting too long for the baby
06/22/00: Good teachers, curious students and oxymorons
06/19/00: Wanted: Some ants for Gore's pants
06/15/00: Like father, like daughter
06/12/00: Culture wars and conservative warriors
06/08/00: Return of the housewife
06/05/00: Hillary and Al -- playing against type
05/31/00: The sexual revolution confronts the SUV
05/25/00: Waiting for the movie
05/22/00: Pistol packin' mamas
05/18/00: Journalists and the 'new time' religion
05/15/00: There's nothing like a (military) dame
05/11/00: 'The Human Stain' on campus
05/09/00: We've come a long way, Betty Friedan
05/04/00: From George Washington to Mansa Masu
05/01/00: Gore's ruthless doublespeak
04/28/00: Doing it Castro's way
04/24/00: Women's studies beget narrow minds
04/17/00: The slippery slope of anti-Semitism
04/13/00: A villain larger than life
04/10/00: When mourning becomes an economic tragedy
04/03/00: The last permissible bigotry
03/30/00: Seeking the political Oscar
03/23/00: The gaying of America
03/20/00: Pointy-eared quadrupeds on campus
03/16/00: The shocking art of the establishment
03/13/00: Sawdust on the campaign trail
03/10/00: Campaign rhetoric of manhood
03/06/00: The Amphetamine of the People
03/02/00: Elegy for Amadou
02/29/00: With only a million, what's a poor girl to do?
02/24/00: The changing politics of change
02/16/00: Tip from Hillary: 'Let 'em eat eggs'
02/10/00: No seances with Eleanor
02/07/00: Campaigning like our founding fathers
02/03/00: When neo-Nazis have short memories
01/31/00: George W. -- 'Ladies man' and 'man's man'
01/27/00: Dead white males and live white politicians
01/25/00: Smarting over presidential smarts
01/21/00: A post-modern song for `The Sopranos'
01/19/00: When personality is a long-distance plus
01/13/00: French lessons in amour --- and marriage
01/10/00: Reaching for the Big Golden Apple
01/07/00: Liddy Dole as the face of feminism
01/04/00: Hillary: From victim to victor
12/30/99: 'Dream catchers' for the millennium
12/27/99: In search of a candidate with strength and eloquence
12/21/99: The president as First Lady
12/16/99: Columbine with blurred hindsight
12/09/99: Homeless deserve discriminating attention
12/07/99: Casual censors and deadly know-nothings
12/02/99: Why mom didn't make general: A reality tale
11/30/99: Potholes on the road to the Promised Land
11/25/99: A feast for the spirit and the stomach
11/23/99: Fathers need to say 'I (can) do'
11/18/99: Adventures of a conservative pundit
11/15/99: Traveling with Jefferson on the information highway
11/11/99: Wanted: 'Foliage of forbiddinness' for the oval office
11/09/99: Eggs, art and rotten commerce
11/05/99: Al Gore, 'Alpha Male'. Bow wow.
11/01/99: Gay love
10/28/99: Lose one Dole, lose two
10/26/99: Rebels with a violent cause
10/21/99: Reforming parents, reforming schools
10/19/99: The male mystique -- he shops
10/13/99:The campaign of the Teletubbies
10/08/99: Money is in the eye of the art dealer
10/01/99: Lincoln's 'Almost Chosen People'
09/29/99: Introducing Bill and Hillary Bickerson
09/27/99: Must we wait for the next massacre?
09/24/99: Miss America meets Miss'd America
09/21/99: Princeton's 'professor death'
09/16/99: The Cisneros lesson
09/13/99: No clemency for personal politics
09/08/99: M-M-M is for manhood
08/30/99: Blocking the schoolhouse door
08/27/99: No kick from cocaine
08/23/99: Movies don't kill people
08/19/99: A rude awakening
08/16/99: Dubyah and that 'language' thing
08/09/99: Chauvinist sows -- oink oink
© 2001, Suzanne Fields
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