Suzanne Fields
By Suzanne Fields (Aug 27, 2010)
NEW YORK CITY -- We stood together in the rain on a Sunday in late summer, most of us as protesters, some of us angrier than others, and some of us there as observers to take... more
By Suzanne Fields (Aug 20, 2010)
We're going to seduce them with our square footage, and our discounts, and our deep armchairs, and our cappuccino. They're going hate us at the beginning. ... But we'll get... more
By Suzanne Fields (Aug 13, 2010)
It's been a long time since Nietzsche announced that God is dead. But debates over the existence of God have taken on an urgency in the 21st century, mainly argued by... more
By Suzanne Fields (Aug 06, 2010)
COROLLA, N.C. -- A perch in the sand on a pristine beach invites a summer afternoon's reflections, and here where North Carolina's Outer Banks meet the Atlantic we're all... more
By Suzanne Fields (Jul 30, 2010)
Chelsea Clinton is getting married, and we all wish her well on the biggest day of a girl's life. Bill and Hillary were the focus of scandal and controversy, left, right and... more
By Suzanne Fields (Jul 23, 2010)
Ah, men. That's no benediction. These are tough times to be a man. It's too Freudian to say they're suffering from an identity crisis, but since macho has been put in... more
By Suzanne Fields (Jul 16, 2010)
WOODS HOLE, Mass. -- Three generations inhabit the summer house, and an extended family gathers each evening at the dinner table to talk about the events, reflections and... more
By Suzanne Fields (Jul 09, 2010)
Wonder Woman got a makeover, but she's still behind the curves. Her designers seem not to realize that for decades women have been in the ascendancy in the marketplace, and... more
By Suzanne Fields (Jul 02, 2010)
Not so long ago, most Americans regarded the Fourth of July as "Independence Day," and called it that -- celebrating liberty and freedom, prizing independence above all. For... more
By Suzanne Fields (Jun 25, 2010)
VENICE -- Moral indignation and human outrage is writ large in the Holocaust memorials growing ubiquitous throughout Europe. How could such things happen? The question numbs... more
By Suzanne Fields (Jun 18, 2010)
BERLIN -- The sun shines bright on an unusually warm day for early June. Men, women and children in t-shirts arrayed in black, red and gold, the national colors, celebrate... more
By Suzanne Fields (Jun 11, 2010)
Only yesterday to be called an "intellectual' was a compliment. But intellectuals no longer carry much weight in politics, in cultural salons, book clubs or the wider world... more
By Suzanne Fields (Jun 04, 2010)
If Israel won't do it, who will? The Israelis understand that friends, even old friends like the United States, are nice -- but nice is never enough. The Europeans, who were... more
By Suzanne Fields (May 28, 2010)
Iran is just short of becoming a nuclear power, and nearly every nation on earth is worried. Israel worries most of all. Nuclear weapons will afford Iran the means to deliver... more
By Suzanne Fields (May 21, 2010)
The pundits, wonks and wannabes are busy debating what this week's primary elections mean. Newt Gingrich says Barack Obama has only "a 20 percent chance" of re-election two... more
By Suzanne Fields (May 14, 2010)
The idea of good and evil, out of fashion for a while, is back. In the pop-culture game of what's "in" and what's "out," you could say that morality is "in," moral relativism... more
By Suzanne Fields (May 07, 2010)
We're grateful for plain old cops. What a relief that Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who could be mistaken for Inspector Clouseau, was not in charge of the search for the Times... more
By Suzanne Fields (Apr 30, 2010)
War is hell, but it has the advantage of clarity. That's why it's the metaphor of choice, even of peaceniks, in so many peacetime arguments. No one wants to argue from the... more
By Suzanne Fields (Apr 23, 2010)
Texas is big. Everybody knows that. Texans, who boast about their diversity and productivity, are usually big, too. Texas produces more beef and cotton than any other... more
By Suzanne Fields (Apr 16, 2010)
Pedestrians in Washington have to be a patient lot. The Nuclear Security Summit was a big deal for Barack Obama and the visiting heads of state, but for everyone else it... more
By Suzanne Fields (Apr 09, 2010)
Among the angels who rebelled against God and followed Lucifer in Milton's "Paradise Lost," Mammon is the most intriguing. He was the "least erect" of the angels because... more
By Suzanne Fields (Apr 02, 2010)
You scream, I scream, and even Dolley Madison screamed for ice cream, serving it at the White House for the first time. Vanilla, of course, and she got the attention of... more
By Suzanne Fields (Mar 26, 2010)
A certain Washington dinner party -- most of the guests were conservatives -- dissolved in raucous laughter the other night when the host asked me what to make of what's... more
By Suzanne Fields (Mar 19, 2010)
Joe Biden was late for a very important date in Jerusalem. He had been invited to dinner with the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, but he was delayed by taking a long... more
By Suzanne Fields (Mar 12, 2010)
On the night gold dust fell on the stars in Hollywood, millions of men and women were putting their lives on the line in Iraq merely by casting a vote. Hollywood... more
By Suzanne Fields (Mar 05, 2010)
Everyone gets to be a movie critic in the days leading up to the award of the Oscars, betting their favorites to win, place or show. Down the home stretch, "Avatar" and... more
By Suzanne Fields (Feb 26, 2010)
Richard Nixon declared War on Cancer in his 1971 State of the Union. Barack Obama devoted one sentence to our investment in promising innovative research in cancer. He... more
By Suzanne Fields (Feb 19, 2010)
Some of our women in the military are new American heroines, having served with both sacrifice and distinction. We owe them all a debt we can never fully repay. But some... more
By Suzanne Fields (Feb 12, 2010)
Men are marrying up. Increasing numbers of husbands are marrying women with more education and a bigger paycheck than they have. Women had best forget looking for a... more
By Suzanne Fields (Feb 05, 2010)
The news of the death of J.D. Salinger recalled the famous Dorothy Parker quip on being told that Calvin Coolidge was dead: "How can they tell?"
Of all the iconic... more
By Suzanne Fields (Jan 29, 2010)
David Plouffe is a friend of mine. Not just a Facebook friend, either, but a real friend. He writes to me, personally. "Friend," the president's chief guru wrote to me in a... more
By Suzanne Fields (Jan 22, 2010)
Scott Brown arrives in Washington driving his famous truck, and he looks like a million dollars -- Jimmy Stewart playing Mr. Smith. President Obama polishes his State of... more
By Suzanne Fields (Jan 15, 2010)
Health care reform blah blah blah. Underwear bomber blah blah blah. Immigration reform blah blah blah.
Where you read this column and other commentaries drawing on the... more
By Suzanne Fields (Jan 08, 2010)
My dinner partner at the holiday table was home on leave from Army Ranger training. He had been living outdoors, learning to be at home in the rain and the mud, eating... more
By Suzanne Fields (Jan 01, 2010)
The Academy Awards have expanded the number of best picture nominations to 10, and the buzz on Planet Earth is all about "Avatar."
Conservatives are enraged at the... more