What Would Phoebe Do?

Recently, a beer company you've almost certainly heard of, whose product you maybe last consumed at a frat party 1,000 years ago, had an...

-On Baltimore, you'll want to read Ta-Nehisi Coates and Elizabeth Nolan Brown . -Is Stella McCartney showing the world that she wears...

I don't believe I'd ever seen a dig at a specific publication in a different publication's submission guidelines page before, bu...

On the one hand, the most extreme example of parental overshare yet is in the NYT Magazine. On the other, pointing this out in an article wo...

When I  read  that a Bon Marché-type French food hall would be coming to lower Manhattan, I was (I, ahem, may have mentioned this on Faceboo...

I've written a bunch of articles this week for The New Republic. Please read them ! Also worth checking out - a Savage Love  letter ...

In the interests of writing a coherent article, as versus a transcript of everything that goes through my head when thinking through one, I ...

-Is there a "safe spaces" epidemic on campus? I'm skeptical . -Via one of the parent-writers I wrote about in that oversha...

I'm not sure if this even counts as a YPIS cycle, because it's just so ridiculous, but here goes: a Jezebel-affiliated piece takes ...

I was listening to an old DoubleX podcast earlier, and learned that I'm many news cycles late to an interesting conversation about drag ...

A certain coffee company has been in the news lately for encouraging discussions about race between baristas and customers. While this has i...

I keep going back and forth on these sandals : -They're fabulous! -They might be more fabulous in brown, but they're only availab...

First up, Philip Galanes , answering the following: My daughter lost her wallet on her college campus. Someone returned it to the campus p...

A commenter  suggests that I may be too quick in dismissing the existence of racial anti-Semitism in Europe. Which tells me that I should ha...

Jeffrey Goldberg's opus on the future of European Jewry isn't quite as panic-stricken as the title - "Is It Time for the Jews ...

Let's say that you're a nanny for a rich family, and an actual nanny - not one on a slightly-too-chipper Netflix show. You're a ...

-Frank Bruni has some words of comfort for college applicants/their parents. It doesn't matter where a kid goes to college! How liberat...

It might seem that being an out-of-touch European aristocrat would be almost a prerequisite for a certain kind of job in fashion journalism....

-You should read Helen Rosner's essay on cookbooks even if this isn't your usual go-to topic. I'll never think of "lifesty...

Thank you, p.c.-indifferent, telling-it-like-it-is menfolk of the Internet, for keeping me entertained. This is going to be the genre now, I...

If there was ever an issue designed to bring out self-satisfaction, it would have to be food waste. If you'd been simmering with the urg...

-Thought I could be all smug about having missed the East Coast winter. Evidently not. It's somehow March but still undriveable. I'd...

There's France, a country in Europe. Then there's Frahnce, an idea, a symbol, a prime study-abroad destination, an Anglo-American fa...

-Gender parity in the literary world. What can be done ? If women persist in painting their nails and watching British glorified soap operas...

Hadley Freeman brings our attention to a lip gloss named "Underage."  Should we protest? Perhaps, but in the U.S. (where, it sound...

-Students at NYC private schools are studying their own privilege , reports Kyle Spencer. The obvious: if unearned advantage were a problem ...

Huh! I wrote something that people seem to generally agree with. (It's my thoughts on feelings journalism - the long and edited version...

-In the New Republic, I argue that professors shouldn't blog negatively about students, reacting to Conor Friedersdorf's piece  and...

Joyce Wadler says here exactly what I was trying to get at here , only better. The difference between sophisticated, sex-positive (Dan Sava...

Just after telling a woman that she should settle for the guy she's with because she's in her mid-30s and not getting any younger, ...

-There's a woman in the coffee shop I'm sitting in wearing the nicest dress I've ever seen, ever. Can't quite describe it (a...

Like Miss Self-Important , I was baffled by Eric Posner's call for for declaring college students children. The biggest issue with it f...