On meat-eating and dog-ownership

I may have been pushed over the edge, if not into squeamishness veganism , than at least squeamishness quasi-vegetarianism, on Saturday. Aft...

How hook-up culture saved bourgeois marriage

Julian Sanchez is completely right to bring neoconservatism into the discussion of whether conservatives who want traditionalism from the m...

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Like the unpaid internship , the question of why Stuyvesant doesn't have more than a handful of black students gets raised every so ofte...

Un-trendy Pendleton

Bisou's maniacal barking alerted me that my much-anticipated  all-cotton jeans had arrived. Remarkably, they fit. A pair of jeans I ord...

The talk, the walk

Says David Brooks : "People in the educated class talk like social progressives and behave like traditionalists." One hears variat...

Dog and man

The Ayelet Waldman of poodle owners

Before I gave any particular thought to poodles, I assumed that they could either be topiaried - which they probably wouldn't appreciate...

"If liberalism is the religion of secularized American Jews, is it possible that illiberalism will become the religion of greater numbers of secularized French Jews?"

I of course read historian Robert Zaretsky's article about the rightward shift of French Jewry with great interest. Zaretsky makes a ke...

What are women's jeans for?

I know you've all been waiting for an update on my quest for all-cotton women's jeans. It continues, on and off. I've ordered s...

The fact remains

Reading the Forward , the following quote, from an expert in this area, jumped out : "'[T]he fact that 20% of Germans have anti-Sem...

Making sandwiches, obvs

Sometimes, a college freshman whose far-right conservatism has not yet been honed into something palatable to mainstream audiences - or who...

Out-of-context quote of the day

"Father Landry aimed his cellphone camera at one of the men and 'snapped a photo of his derriere,' he said. 'Because it’s e...

"Not gay bars, Ma. Zabar's."*

Every so often, I have to go to the Zabar's cheese department. Forces beyond my control compel it. When it was something I theoretically...

"'It's going to feel like up north now.'"

These are words I never thought I'd read: "University of Chicago bought the former Borders bookstore at 1539 E. 53rd St. in Hyde Pa...

Valentine's Day assortment

- Seems about right . Perfect poodle-face. -Did you see "Midnight in Paris," mostly fall for its charm, but feel like maybe someth...

Shabbat Shalom indeed

WWPD would not be WWPD if I did not set aside the latest JStor find for a moment to share with you, my readers, something that hits upon all...

Des Français

Sometimes, from the ol' mailing list, I wonder if being an American getting a degree in French is a bit like if I, a "cis" wom...

Today in effortless

Into the Gloss outdoes itself . Says today's "Top Shelf" participant: "[...] I’ve always been pretty low-maintenance with...

More pickitarianism

Brian Moylan admits he hates cheese. Because it's Gawker, the commenters are a) uniformly anonymous, and b) expected to shun sincerity,...

Speaking of...

How timely ! Fresh in my inbox, an email forwarded to my department proposing what could only be described as the job Elaine does for Mr. Pi...

Between Penny and Sheldon

Much like Isabel (who, as seems relevant for the content of this post, I "know" only via blog), I've been following the Asper...

The 'ship has sailed UPDATED

Every so often, we must remember the unpaid interns. Accustomed to working for no pay as students (albeit working for themselves ), it'...

Raising Johan and François

Miss Self-Important alerted me to something "combining amy chua with skinny frenchwomen," so I had to look, and before even knowin...

Inherently inaccurate

Dan Savage really does seem hung up on this idea that women have the capacity to be attracted to the person , regardless of gender . He got...

But who Irons his shirts?

Just as the daughters of famous people are invariably classified as "models," so it goes with the sons. A failure in the fight aga...

"Can you name this NASCAR champion?"

Gawker points us to a Charles Murray (-inspired?)  quiz that, in 20 questions, tells you how Real American you are, a kind of conserva-ran...