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In March 2017, my first book, "The Perils of 'Privilege'", was published by St. Martin's Press.
For a taste of what it's about, try the "YPIS" tag here.
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2004
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October
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- "It took me a while to admit it, but I was scared ...
- "...some excess junk in the trunk."
- Plain Wrong
- Halloween at Chicago
- Zac as a vampire and Aaron as, we determined, a pr...
- I wish I were a Japanese doll-robot-person
- Kate poses
- Shabbat Shalom
- The Skeleton Comes out of Columbia's Closet
- NEWS FLASH! Not All Protesters Are Getting Laid
- Andrew Sullivan, Lincoln, and "Gay"
- Israel: not just a depressing CNN headline
- Shawn Macomber is a Prophet
- The Old Country is New Again
- Thanksgiving with the Macombers
- Danceable Education
- My latest Maroon column is online.
- Could it be...
- Can You Do This?
- "In a matter of months, the Bush administration lo...
- "'Anybody But Bush'--and this from those who decry...
- More Thoughts on Safire
- Kerry and the Jewish Vote: a response to the respo...
- "Workloads have never been heavier"
- Heather, you just think he's gay because he's not ...
- Is Safire missing something?
- The Best Internet Site Ever
- This is Unfortunate
- They Like Him, They Really, Really Like Him
- Weekend Update
- Pamela Anderson out to save the bears, reports the...
- Newfound fame
- Buster's Garage: Tribeca Anomaly or Yet Another Ir...
- Overheard on line at a Michigan Avenue Walgreens
- NYC public school kids, more wholesome than most
- Moon boots?
- Sailors for Bush
- Al Sharpton is Not Cuddly
- A Chance To Make a Difference
- Huh?
- SJM, GOP, Seeking SJF, GOP
- In defense of "partisan hacks"
- Even gay conservatives are allowed, every so often...
- Books I Probably Won't Like
- "Gay novel" wins prize [UPDATED]
- "Fiercely Orthodox Jews"
- Do not talk on your cellphone while riding your bi...
- Would You Like a Side Order of Psychodrama With Th...
- Woe are those born in meritocratic times
- Remember the socialist utopia that was 1950s America?
- No Culture...Not Bad!
- Let Princeton have its Small World, we U of Cers a...
- Post-Raines revolution at the NYT?
- Viking Hipster
- Jen and me, waiting for the #6 bus
- Vietnamese food, 1
- Vietnamese food, 2
- October in Chicago
- A hot pepper outfit for a dachshund
- Vote or Die! Or Not?
- Brooks vs. Blachman: Let the best parody win
- A student's earnest but misguided plea to Kerry: S...
- When tourist attractions include Classics Cafe and...
- Sweet Sixteen, Indeed...
- In praise of re-learning
- Expect the unexpected
- Les Deux Magots de Bartlett
- Michael Musto in Plato's Symposium, the Patricia F...
- It's in the details
- Was he or wasn't he?
- But that's all she's unveiling...
- Jane Brody, on produce:
- How many were there?
- Thankfulness and whininess
- The REAL Gender Gap
- What I Did on My Winter Vacation
- Overheard
- NYT does human-interest
- Red State, Blue State, Squirrel State, NYT-reader ...
- Ashton Kutcher, leading third-party candidate?
- How to braise an endive in 0.01 seconds
- $7.11
- This is Chicago. This is Grand!
- Chafetz and Sullivan bring a wide audience to the ...
- Downtown Chicago, October 9, 2004
- Fox & Obel
- Fox & Obel Cafe, 1
- Fox & Obel Cafe, 2
- Michigan Avenue
- Horse and apple
- Looking at sailors
- The mucky puddle known as "too much information"
- One and the same
- Guest chef
- Guenter Lehnhof brings spaezle to Chicago's dinin...
- Here we go again: Where was I when this happened?
- Neocons for Kerry, Part 3
- "...drunk and wearing flip-flops on Fifth Avenue"-...
- For those who haven't already seen this: My discus...
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- gender studies (490)
- tour d'ivoire (396)
- haute couture (351)
- haute cuisine (193)
- US politics (159)
- personal health (154)
- non-French Jews (142)
- heightened sense of awareness (140)
- young people today (133)
- first-world problems (129)
- vanity (126)
- euphemistic New Jersey (124)
- YPIS (119)
- Old-New Land (115)
- francophilic zionism (114)
- cheapness studies (109)
- I am not French (102)
- another food movement post (94)
- Europinions (92)
- correcting the underrepresentation of New York (80)
- der schrecklichen franzosischen Pudel (79)
- old age (68)
- dirty laundry (67)
- major questions of our age (67)
- race (60)
- I am an intellectual (58)
- lives you could only dream of (58)
- busman's holiday (56)
- fish in a barrel (53)
- persistent motifs (53)
- nineteenth century France (52)
- converting to Flemish (51)
- male beauty (50)
- unpaid internships (48)
- bloggery (45)
- defending the indefensible (44)
- life isn't fair (44)
- Le Reg me manque (40)
- unsupported social commentary (39)
- Jewish babies (38)
- nonsense overanalyzed (37)
- HMYF (35)
- conserva-rants (35)
- vroom vroom (35)
- paging Dan Savage (34)
- non-French Canada (33)
- blather (32)
- cheapness studied then deliberately ignored (31)
- booklined Upper West Side childhoods (30)
- dachshundwatch (29)
- Belles Juives (28)
- rites of passage (26)
- very young people today (26)
- Go Peglegs (24)
- another window of opportunity post (24)
- respect mah authoritah (24)
- wanty (24)
- back to pasta (22)
- fromage (22)
- Grad-Student Anti-Defamation League (21)
- the post-facebook age (21)
- Humanities Anti-Defamation League (20)
- dreams of my dishwasher (20)
- meritocracy mediocrity (20)
- on the intermittent appeal of those subway ads to become an air-conditioner repairman (20)
- rocket science (20)
- unsolicited manifestos (20)
- I am not Japanese (19)
- a long post nobody will read (19)
- contrarian responses to contrarian articles (18)
- too brilliant to bathe (18)
- fiction is better (17)
- on turning my apartment into a Japanese restaurant (17)
- post-YPIS (17)
- woes of gentrification (17)
- it doesn't commute (16)
- the new Brooklyn (16)
- we've come a long way baby (14)
- not-so-young people today (13)
- repeating myself on my blog because I'm too busy to come up with new material and don't want to abandon the blog altogether (13)
- conservative critiques of academia (12)
- fauxbivalence (12)
- further cluttering the internet with Lena Dunham commentary (12)
- love-hate relationships (12)
- WWPD Guides (11)
- holistic (11)
- maybe just maybe gun control (11)
- questions for (both) my readers (11)
- had my Phil (10)
- leaving the house (10)
- susan sontag heidi montag (10)
- Ashkenazi alcohol tolerance (9)
- I am not Californian (9)
- Rufus Wainwrightism (9)
- barely-supported historiographical commentary (8)
- contrarian responses to advice columns (8)
- life imitates art (8)
- pretty privilege (8)
- Don't-Go (7)
- Paris is nice (7)
- builds character (7)
- contrarian responses to fish-in-a-barrel articles (7)
- contrarian responses to non-controversial articles (7)
- gratuitous smug (7)
- rescue culture (7)
- sport (7)
- unsupported psychological commentary (7)
- second after Sartre (6)
- the Allen-Roth two-headed monster (6)
- I am not German (5)
- Orientalism (5)
- act British think Yiddish (5)
- basic life skills (5)
- dreams of my Internet (5)
- genre-coining (5)
- nothing new under the sun (5)
- ombré (5)
- progressive-universalist babies (5)
- Casa Della Bisou (4)
- Gwyneth Paltrow's weekly cigarette (4)
- and that's the last you'll be hearing on this topic (4)
- graphomania (4)
- horribleness (4)
- mansplaining (4)
- perils of overshare (4)
- rainy but worth it (4)
- things that cannot possibly interest anyone else (4)
- utter nonsense (4)
- vigorous defenses of contrarian articles (4)
- weight-think (4)
- French Canada (3)
- I am Liz Lemon (3)
- I am a dirty hippie (3)
- I am actually three (3)
- Invalides (3)
- Isaac Jashevis Singer (3)
- Jews in agriculture (3)
- Undergraduate Anti-Defamation League (3)
- abolish middle school (3)
- an investment piece (3)
- creative types (3)
- eiskaffee (3)
- family values (3)
- hair politics (3)
- high-end stretch pants (3)
- hopeless attempts at photographing household objects (3)
- in which I translate from the Style section (3)
- kaas (3)
- kale (3)
- the contemporary relevance of 1970s sitcoms (3)
- unsupported legislative commentary (3)
- unsupported political commentary (3)
- unsupported style commentary (3)
- writing about writing (3)
- British television overanalyzed (2)
- I am an art ignoramous (2)
- I am an art ignoramus (2)
- Miss Fine (2)
- Quinn and the Fashion Club (2)
- art imitates life (2)
- avoiding the news cycle (2)
- bloggery as self-life-coaching (2)
- converting to Flemish maybe some other time (2)
- entitled much? (2)
- fast fashion (2)
- feelings (2)
- goils were goils and men were men (2)
- guilt (2)
- having thoughts on the major legal and political stories of the day but only sharing thoughts about fashion (2)
- interior decorating (2)
- meh (2)
- non-Canadian North America (2)
- not quite first world problems (2)
- on her former employment at a bridal shop in Flushing Queens (2)
- pickitarianism (2)
- provincial complaints (2)
- self-improvement (2)
- unsupported neurological commentary (2)
- utter genius (2)
- your questions answered (2)
- Festivus (1)
- French-teacher anti-defamation league (1)
- Greater Philadelphia (1)
- I am not a medievalist (1)
- I am not a wine connoisseur (1)
- Sandy-whine (1)
- Simon Doonan and the tongue-in-cheek defense (1)
- The Moment (1)
- a post on which I expect no comments (1)
- autobiographical projection (1)
- because it's there (1)
- biology 101 (1)
- bonapartism (1)
- buried ledes (1)
- busman's holiday avoided (1)
- casualwear sexism (1)
- contrarian cheapness advice (1)
- contrarian responses to legislation (1)
- contrarian responses to perfectly lovely urban developments (1)
- contrarianism (1)
- early-twentieth-century France (1)
- embarrassing confessions (1)
- exercises in futility (1)
- fashion and feminism (1)
- first-world French-major-specific problems (1)
- friendship (1)
- great escapes (1)
- hamster-wheel workouts (1)
- hareglayim shelee (1)
- how is there not already a Natalie Portman tag (1)
- imaginary French boyfriends (1)
- in which God walks out of the men's room (1)
- matzo brei (1)
- mini-bailouts (1)
- miscellaneous seafood in a barrel (1)
- neurosis (1)
- not sarcastic I swear (1)
- on the foolishness of Googling one's own name or the title of something one has written (1)
- overanalyzing so-last-season cultural phenomena (1)
- oxymorons (1)
- pasta anti-defamation league (1)
- placeholders (1)
- pot meets kettle (1)
- psychology of sub-dollar expenditures (1)
- quasi-offensive reappropriation (1)
- rampant materialism (1)
- renewed germophobia (1)
- round-ups (1)
- shameless attempts to provoke a dwindling libertarian readership (1)
- shortness overanalyzed (1)
- something is fishy (1)
- terroir (1)
- the final word (1)
- there oughta be a law (1)
- unsupported climate-science commentary (1)
- unsupported philosophical commentary (1)
- warm welcomes (1)
- you don't care (1)
1 comment:
I hear that model is going for a very reasonable price at Bloomingdale's - what a steal for such a great apliance.
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