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The Night Ozempic Came to Dinner
I love dinner parties. I love attending them, and I love throwing them even more. When I was a child, my parents had lively dinners every week—sometimes raucous, always...
Two Birds on a Christmas Tree
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven,...
Faith of My Fathers
This summer, my husband and I took a cruise through the breathtakingly magnificent fjords of Norway and Denmark, making stops at towns and villages along the way. At the...
More Than a Journal
In 1990, my husband and I were married by Richard John Neuhaus. Also in 1990, he founded a little journal called . . . First Things. How often, these days,...
Why the Left Won’t Condemn the October 7 Rapes
In 2015, Columbia University was in an uproar over Ovid’s Metamorphoses, which was, at the time, required reading for the freshman class. The classic Roman myths include tales of...
At Princeton, the Ugliness Is the Point
Once upon a time, when you turned off Route 1 onto Washington Road, you knew you were approaching a rare and wonderful place. A long avenue flanked on both...
The Sad Fate of Girls’ Schools
On a leafy street in Carnegie Hill, in the heart of Manhattan’s Upper East Side, sits the Nightingale-Bamford School, founded in 1920 by Miss Nightingale (joined later by Miss...
Woman, Heal Thyself
The Church of England isn’t sure what a woman is. “There is no official definition, which reflects the fact that until fairly recently definitions of this kind were thought...
Jesus the Carpenter
My husband and I recently left the city after a lifetime on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. Following in the footsteps of Chip and Joanna Gaines, or better yet, Cary...
Give My Regards to New York
I came to be an actress, or something like that. I stayed to raise a daughter. Along the way, I grew up and lived a life. New York, I...
A Gleeful Slaughter of the Innocents
To Bishop Andrew Dietsche, Episcopal Diocese of New York: As an Episcopalian in New York City, I regularly receive emails from you expressing concern and even outrage about a wide...
Blame It on W
We play a game in my family called Blame It on W. At first, we were a little slow to understand the rules, but, living on the Upper West...
Grim Tales
For the past two years, I have been the head “Library Mommy” at my daughter’s private nursery school. The children tell me what books they have or have not...
The Loss of the Family Story
The Abolition of Marriage: How We Detroy Lasting Love By Maggie Gallagher Regnery, 300 pages, $24.95 Maggie Gallagher’s newest book, The Abolition of Marriage , is a tough, passionate...
Getting Real
A few months ago my stepdaughter turned eleven. On the verge of adolescence, Stella wonders daily about the stuff of female life. Hair, clothes, boyfriends. Condoms, sexual harassment, abortion....
