On those who died for your $4.95 tank tops

Earlier, I sat in my office, a half-block or so away from the site of the Triangle Shirtwaist fire , and read about the modern-day equivalen...

The neurosis Facebook invented

Emily "Prudence" Yoffe (and bear with me even if you're not a Prudie fan, this is merely the point of departure) recently got ...

With age, the freedom to frown

Today I have: sat next to the smelliest person ever to sit in the NJ Transit quiet car; heard a slender female passerby of a certain age tel...

Nails and intersectionality

Bisou - who, let it be known, is fine now - timed her worst-yet gastrointestinal woes for just as my husband had to leave to go give a talk...

Equal-opportunity romance

Amber brings our attention  - and Dan Savage brought our attention - to a post  by Jos about why women who say they only date women or tran...

Busybodies or gun control

-In light of the discussion below , it perhaps bears mentioning that the latest perpetrator-of-American-tragedy is 24, and so a child accord...

Off

I approached both of the recent articles -  Rachel Aviv 's in the New Yorker , and Scott Anderson 's in this week's NYT Magazine...

United in studiousness and lactose intolerance

-As someone who both is intermarried and studies intermarriage ( the backstory ), I read with interest this account of a couple, Helen Kim ...

The myth of the "elite" diet

One reads a great deal about how these days, "we" (as in, the author and those like the author, in the author's estimation) ca...

On the Charles Murray op-ed

Yes. No. Kind of. Kind of. Slightly longer version: Murray suggests  four ways to bridge the gap "between the professional and working ...