As if I would know, but it was maddening trying to follow it in last week's New York magazine piece, "The Secret Lives of Married Men." Building on the dinner-party chestnut that men have a deep sexual need (a biological imperative!) to spread their seed and so shouldn't be...

How hard could it have been to understand what went into being pregnant? Nearly half the world has the experience, continually and since the dawn of time. My own partner carried our first child four years ago, and there I was, at every kick and step. And yet the surprises,...

So senior Republicans and Speaker Denny Hastert missed -- perhaps willfully -- the Mark Foley problem until it blew up on them. Hearing a few blowsy Republicans and in particular their (potentially pebble-in-shoe, humble) Christian conservative base share views on the fallout is like standing once again on the far...

There's been a scrabble of activity among the icons of print journalism these past months, and even in its broad variety - The New York Times features all manner of blogs; Time Inc., like Hachette before it, shutters the print version of a youth magazine but keeps it...

On September 18, 1999 my partner and I were married the way couples of our socio-cultural-economic-geographic background often are: by a minister, in a downtown Manhattan loft, with friends and family watching and excellent food and drinks following. We exchanged rings and said our vows as the sun set. We...

Politics and media today seem locked into parallel scrums, with one crucial difference: evenually the better, faster pieces of the media scrum will break away, and the crowd will roar its approval. The political teams will churn their legs faster, get muddier, even bite off an ear, with no clear...

So many books about motherhood and work, so little time to consider them due to motherhood and work.

In recent weeks both The New Republic and The Weekly Standard have explored various aspects of the mommy dilemma in book reviews that cover the range of opinion on working...

Growing up – so they say – there were three things not to bring up in polite company: religion, politics and money. I don’t recall anyone ever mentioning race. I assume race wasn’t included not because the topic didn’t also start arguments or was crass; you didn’t bring it up...

We have a problem in magazine publishing: the white glare is making it increasingly hard for us to make out distinctions in the cultural landscape that are shaping the 21st century, and therefore our business.

The industry understands the challenge, and is scared enough by the implications – if we...

I woke up this morning and recognized again my unavoidable membership in the liberal media elite. Witness:

· I live in the Upper West Side of New York City
· With a woman
· And our daughter.
· I oversee business at a politically liberal magazine
...

Saving Face, the recent film by Alice Wu, trades on cultural stereotypes and their funnier original characters; it shows an established American subculture that speaks little English; and it shows two women falling in love. (And onto the floor, part of a dance lesson in falling gracefully. Perhaps...

Here comes Hillary , which reminds me: what is it, honestly, about her that’s so deeply hateful to the conservative right? She is bright and articulate in a way that comes along rarely in a generation; she’s thoughtful, efficient, political, ambitious, confident, unapologetic, possibly ruthless. She believes in God....

As yesterday's New York Times article on the Cheney women confirmed, strong women abound in the Bush administration, and the Cheneys are no exception. Lynne Cheney has long been a force in her own right, of course, from author to president of NEH to roving intellectual; daughter Liz is...

Like fellow HuffPost blogger Cable Neuhaus, I was at the FIPP magazine Congress in New York earlier this week, but as a business geek, not editorial observer. My takeaways have to do with my current obsessions with the strength and opportunity of magazines as businesses -- provided they, and...

I’m slow to accuse anyone of true ill will; you have your opinion, I have mine, peace.

But watching President Bush steamroll more and more of his cultural values into the public square, I think: no peace. I wonder: what happened to old-fashioned conservative political values like non-interference in...

Here's to hoping that stereotyping and hyperbole won't ever be completely stamped out of proper citizenship. Stereotypes are particularly useful in bringing order to a complicated world, and there's something deeply satisfying about taking out road rage, for example, on the stereotype of choice, particularly if you're alone. (My political...