What Would Phoebe Do?

Daphne Merkin thinks we (and this is the NYT "we," meaning "we super-rich, super-educated, and super-trendy people from Manh...

According to New York Magazine dating columnist Amy Sohn, "men are just as susceptible to biology’s imperatives." Sohn discusses ...

Six, according to this fascinating article about Israeli teens on Weight Watchers . While Israeli kids risk getting blown up when they go to...

I must be oblivious or something, but until Sam told me what an eruv was, I had no idea that there's a string around the Upper East Sid...

Just spent much of the afternoon in a mad search for my grammar-checked BA, which was not in the box I'd thought, but in a different box...

OK, French Jews of the late 19th century, stop giving me grief. Stop being all complex and confused, a little bit of this, a little bit of t...

I have to prove I know all about the Dreyfus Affair, and that I can convey this in spoken French. This is set to happen next Thursday. Hot i...

I'm thinking of starting a new blog devoted entirely to the disgusting things I've witnessed people doing at the library. Just now, ...

Three different people have sent me the cheese article from the NYT , which turns out to be the paper's most-emailed article. ( The Mari...

How did it come to pass that I'm studying and am mildly obsessed with French Jews? I've taken French since third grade and have been...

Under no circumstances should you clip your nails at the library. The man across from me at the table I was, until about 30 seconds ago, sea...

I want it all . And the slide show is just too much. Not, as they say, work-safe.

Camille Paglia was on campus this evening, and I'm sorry to say that I wasted 90 minutes of my life listening to her diatribe. She'...

1) Haircut. 2) Buy Dookie, the CD version, as opposed to the tape I may or may not still have back in NYC. 3) Consider various iPossibilitie...

Jon Caramanica, in the Village Voice : If I recall correctly, I was the only person from either of my two childhood zip codes—11234 in Mill ...

At Cornell, with 19,700 students, administrators have built 10 living-learning communities, called "program houses," over the past...

Today, the head of the KMT party in Taiwan decided to pay a visit to the Chinese mainland, where he'll meet Chinese President Hu Jintao ...

Judging future prospects from the past. Henry Kissinger himself writes, about Vietnam: A conventional war is about control of territory; a ...

Reihan is right , the proudly multiracial ought not to take offense at being asked about their race. That said, what Reihan misses is that G...

It's beginning to look a lot like Passover.  Sam in his Sunday best.  Matzo and Manishevitz.  Why is there an orange on the seder plate?...

Correct me if I'm wrong, but couldn't the Democrats filibuster to...save the filibuster? Can't you see it now? A small group of...

Just got back from a seder; there may be pictures (mostly birds' eye view shots of Passover foods, and one of an especially fashionable ...

So Princeton has an abstinence club . Good for Princeton. Chicago does not, as far as I know, have anything of the kind, but we do have shir...

The following are frequently asked of me by others, but are still more frequently asked of me by myself: 1) What are you doing next year? 2)...

Two letters to the editor in the latest Maroon argue that Asians should be considered an underprivileged minority because, while Asians are...

The BA is happening. Things that I've learned in my BA mini-breaks this afternoon: 1) Matthew Yglesias is obsessed with goat . 2) "...

It is 2:06 PM. Classics Cafe is hopping with people studying Truth and Freedom, maybe Existence, but it's a Friday afternoon, so maybe n...

Today in Hebrew, we made haroset, the Passover food that looks, as our teacher admitted, something like baby food, but tastes good, assuming...

This is a movie about two immensely unappealing people. "Katie" (Barbra Streisand) comes across as incredibly annoying. And ...

The New York Times warns against the dangers of being too rich and too thin .

Explication de texte + reflexive Hebrew verbs + much-needed vacuuming and laundry-doing = no time for blogging. So this is the post for toda...

This article , on student writing-contest winners, mentions all three high schools attended by my immediate family. Considering that two of ...

Jenn convinced me to go running today, not by blogging about it, but by, you know, having me go running with her. The blogosphere is seemin...

Tonight, for the first time since my freshman year, I ate in the Pierce dining hall. It seemed so different and yet so the same. The food lo...

From Paul Rudnick's "Shouts & Murmurs" piece, " My Living Will ," in the latest New Yorker : 5. Do not resuscita...

From a concerned NYT letter-writer : I wish that what David Brooks wrote [about young people today having conservative sexual mores] were tr...

I see this headline and think, "Oh neat, there's a new pope, and he's black. Barriers are totally being broken these days!...

The screening 's been cancelled. No foul play, they just don't have the tape yet, so no kerfuffle. Unrelated: To whom it may concern...

While Portnoy and Woody Allen may have celebrated the shiksa, it's the shikso, so to speak, who's getting all the press these days. ...

Tomorrow I'm seeing "Columbia Unbecoming"--I certainly hope tasty Middle-Eastern food (if only Chickpea would open a branch i...