Suzanne Fields

SUZANNE FIELDS: Feminism stalking Hillary Clinton

Feminism is the hydra-headed monster stalking Hillary Clinton's campaign for president. She once thought her appeal to women, as the first of her "gender" to get a real crack at the presidency, was straightforward, unambiguous and unstoppable, but now she can't hear the cheers for the cacophony of squabbling female voices.

February 10, 2016

SUZANNE FIELDS: Hillary Clinton must deal with woman problem

Votes are stubborn little things. Votes have none of the sparkle and shine of some of the campaign rhetoric. Votes don't soar, they sink in. Votes are precious and deeply felt by the man and woman who casts one, but the candidates stop catering to votes as soon as they're cast.

February 3, 2016

SUZANNE FIELDS: New Yorkers pull together in blizzard

NEW YORK CITY -- It's a strange time to be in a blizzard in the birthplace of "New York values." The wind howls through the canyons of commerce like a wolf at full moon, and for a change the noise is from nature and not from the politicians. The blinding whiteout clears the mind to focus on what's at hand, and what requires a helping hand.

January 27, 2016

SUZANNE FIELDS: Donald Trump drowns out Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz

Donald Trump is the politician who most accurately reflects the rage and anger, the zeitgeist, of our time. You don't have to like him, want him to win, or even expect him to be the Republican nominee to see that he's perfected the roughhouse tone of the way we communicate politics.

January 20, 2016

SUZANNE FIELDS: What do women want this year?

Eight years ago -- that's a generation in presidential politics -- Hillary Clinton expected that as the first woman in the Oval Office she would be making the State of the Union address this week. Instead she's in Iowa and New Hampshire, up to her knees in snow and slush again, fighting off Bernie Sanders, who was left for dead a month ago and has suddenly begun rising in the polls in both states.

January 14, 2016

SUZANNE FIELDS: Sexual politics of Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton

"Sexual politics" once described the power relationship between a man and a woman, but that has changed, like everything else, with the changing times. In the age of the Internet, with its blessings and curses delivered at warp speed, presidential politics expands (some say narrows) what goes on between a man and a woman in the harsh glare of a campaign.

January 6, 2016

SUZANNE FIELDS: What a year for women, for better and worse

Changes and trends of the old year now passing in review show women holding, as usual, a mixed bag. Some less sanguine women would call it a Pandora's box.

December 30, 2015

SUZANNE FIELDS: The challenge to get to Mars and back

Measure it any way you like, but this hasn't been the championship season of the "can do" spirit of America. Most of the presidential campaigners spend their allotted minutes criticizing what's wrong with the country, how others have made a mess of things, and why voters should put them in charge of changing things.

December 23, 2015

SUZANNE FIELDS: The antique feminism of Hillary Clinton

The Republicans have sucked all the oxygen out of the room with a race that's finally getting really interesting. Bernie Sanders is vanishing into irrelevance and the Hillary story of the Republican week was about how she is losing traction with the new generation of women voters. Not exactly the attention she and the party want.

December 16, 2015

SUZANNE FIELDS: When religious fashion invites suspicion

When I was a girl, graduating from Old Testament and Hebrew language studies at a conservative synagogue, I wore a white robe, carried an armful of red roses and gave a speech to my family and the congregation. A wealthy friend of the family, an orthodox member of the faith, sent me a necklace with a pendant and a 2-carat diamond set in a platinum six-pointed Star of David.

December 9, 2015

SUZANNE FIELDS: ‘Then they came for the Jews’

"First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out, because I was not a Socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out, because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out, because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak for me."

December 2, 2015

SUZANNE FIELDS: Finding more than faults on Thanksgiving

Has anybody seen Norman Rockwell? We gather together for the Thanksgiving holiday and a few days of family togetherness. The tables are groaning under time-honored dishes of our Pilgrim forefathers, or so we like to think. We tell innocent stories about them and their Native American guests (or "Indians," as the first settlers called them.)

November 25, 2015

SUZANNE FIELDS: The radical Islamic challenge to Western civilization

Two weeks before the Paris massacre, we took our twin granddaughters, age 11, for their first visit to Paris. They live in Berlin, and were eager to see the Mona Lisa smile, watch artists paint in Montmartre, and take a boat trip on the Seine. One night we watched the tip of the Eiffel Tower light up like a sparkler on the Fourth of July (or Bastille Day, if you like).

November 18, 2015

SUZANNE FIELDS: Colleges teaching students what to think

College kids do the darndest things. You send them away to open up their minds and they learn to close them, for themselves and for others. The tantrum generation just managed a left-wing coup at the University of Missouri, stifling freedom of expression and forcing out the president and chancellor of the university.

November 11, 2015

SUZANNE FIELDS: How the debates became a morality play

A mixture of Americans, Frenchmen and Germans, all swimming in the simmering pot of an extended family, got together in Paris one night last week to be entertained by a young American woman studying to be a clown in a school just outside the city.

November 4, 2015

SUZANNE FIELDS: The uncivil war between feminists, transgendered women

The PC culture, writing the politically correct rules on everything everywhere, from the bedroom to the boardroom, seems about to implode. When that happy day arrives, with all the nonsense going up in steam if not smoke, credit should not go to Donald Trump, the angry warrior against all things PC.

October 28, 2015

SUZANNE FIELDS: The robots are coming, with not much yet to say

Harry S. Truman once told a frustrated newcomer to the ways of Washington to expect permanently tough times. "If you want a friend in Washington," he said, "get a dog." That's still good advice, but now there's an alternative and it comes already housebroken. The robots are coming!

October 21, 2015

SUZANNE FIELDS: A big hand for Hillary Clinton

Hillary Rodham Clinton listened to her consultants, handlers and other men paid to be wise when she first ran for president seven years ago. They told her to run like a man, make no big deal about the obvious because her sex -- "gender," we call it in our more squeamish times -- was unimportant. She took their advice, and the rest is tortured history.

October 14, 2015

SUZANNE FIELDS: Hillary Clinton isn’t funny

While the Donald tries to overcome his reputation as an over-the-top television entertainer to caress his ambition to become president, Hillary Rodham Clinton is running for comedienne in chief. She went on "SaturdayNight Live" to trade her high seriousness for laughs. Neither candidate will seal the deal the way they're trying to do it.

October 7, 2015

SUZANNE FIELDS: Drafting a moving campaign message

What a week for the visual, the holy grail of the marketing men, though there was nothing particularly holy about the way the political pursued religious pomp in the most political of cities.

September 30, 2015