Read our blog
-
Read more: The self-assertive, independent woman“What kind of revolution, I wonder, do we need to make men dream of self-assertive, independent women as the epitome of beauty?” asks Fratema Mernissi…
-
Read more: Thanks for animal friendsI just read a good dog book—the heartwarming story about Haatchi and Little B. Haatchi is a big dog—an Anatolian shepherd—that was abused and then…
-
Read more: Not as big as a DreadnoughtusI’m feeling dreadful. I hadn’t lost the extra pounds I gained during my vacation when company arrived at our house. After five days of entertaining,…
-
Read more: No perfect heroesToday we want our heroes to be perfect, says filmmaker Ken Burns. Theodore Roosevelt and Franklin Roosevelt, the two presidents featured in his new PBS…
-
Read more: A complicated marriageEleanor and Franklin Roosevelt had “a complicated marriage,” concluded filmmaker Ken Burns when he talked to an audience in Dallas recently about his new PBS…
-
Read more: Gaining confidenceWhat’s the “magic formula” for gaining confidence? “For once, we found surprising clarity and consensus,” write Katty Kay and Claire Shipman in their book The…
-
Read more: The pursuit of perfectionWhat’s the most crippling thing we do to undermine our confidence? Trying to be perfect, answer Katty Kay and Claire Shipman in their book The…
-
Read more: When in doubt, actKatty Kay and Claire Shipman stress that the most important lesson to remember from their book The Confidence Code is this: “When in doubt, act.”…
-
Read more: The opportunity to get over itMajor General Jessica Wright, undersecretary of defense for personnel and readiness, remembers when she was a brand-new lieutenant, and a superior told her that he…
-
Read more: A fascinating spectacleJoyce Carol Oates, whose latest novel is Carthage, says that the book that changed her life was Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland and Through the…