Suzanne Fields

SUZANNE FIELDS: Carly vs. Hillary

Carly Fiorina doesn't want anyone to care, and we're not supposed to notice, but it's a pleasure to see a woman with style running for president. She dresses with understated panache. She talks about moral values with the no-nonsense confidence of an old-fashioned schoolmarm, and she sounds like someone who believes what she says about the value of a human life.

September 23, 2015

SUZANNE FIELDS: Joe Biden might be the right man for Democrats

This might be Joe Biden's time at last.

September 16, 2015

SUZANNE FIELDS: Liberal arts degrees lose their appeal

In autumn a young man's fancy, and a young woman's, too, turns to thoughts of school. Even the melancholy chirping of the crickets becomes a sad song of the ebb of summer.

September 9, 2015

SUZANNE FIELDS: The insufferable return of radical chic

The strange summer of '15 fades with murder accelerating in the big cities. Most of the dead are black, slain by blacks. Many white liberals are in a fashionable rage of blaming themselves for it.

September 2, 2015

SUZANNE FIELDS: Can Hillary Clinton light a partisan fire?

When Hillary Clinton lost to Barack Obama in 2008, the idea of scoring a first for women was trumped by the appeal of electing the first black president.

August 26, 2015

SUZANNE FIELDS: Hillary Clinton’s character is exposed in public performance

The theatrics of politics can sometimes work best in summer stock. The candidates know they're not yet playing on Broadway, but they're practicing as if on the road to see what audiences laugh at, applaud and sometimes hiss and boo.

August 19, 2015

SUZANNE FIELDS: Republican candidates’ American dream message a winner

The Republican candidates who demonstrated in the first debate that they "get it" were the candidates who kept their focus on the pursuit of happiness, a pursuit that runs past carnivals and sideshows and to economic growth.

August 12, 2015

SUZANNE FIELDS: A few grooming tips for the candidates

Some of the gents who are tempted to mock Hillary Clinton's bad hair days are about to feel some of the lady's pain, beginning Thursday night in the first debate of the presidential nominating season. Bad hair days, and Hillary has a lot of them, aren't funny. Ask any woman.

August 5, 2015

SUZANNE FIELDS: Hillary Clinton haunted by her past

"Those who cannot remember the past," the philosopher George Santayana reminded us, "are condemned to repeat it." The young, particularly the young voters of 2016, have no memory of Bill Clinton, and along with the rest of us they're about to get a reprise of the Hillary story.

July 29, 2015

SUZANNE FIELDS: Rupublican candidates must catch up with social media

The Republicans are desperately trying to get hip. Pursuing the latest new thing is not in the Republican DNA, but it's necessary to win elections. They have to tap into the popular culture of social media to woo the younger generation of voters, and that requires a digital strategy.

July 22, 2015

SUZANNE FIELDS: Atticus Finch revealed to be racist

The controversy over Harper Lee's new "old" novel, "Go Set a Watchman," might be the most bizarre controversy yet in a summer of bizarre and unlikely explosions of national piety.

July 15, 2015

SUZANNE FIELDS: Amy Schumer defining vulgarity down

Any man would tell you that women can't whistle, throw a pass or cuss very well. Female cussin' has punch but no authority. But the triumph of modern feminism is that a woman has the right to be as vulgar as any man. No, scratch that. It's not a right, but acceptance (in certain circles) for using verbal vulgarity as crudely as a barroom brawler. We used to call it "giving lip." It was not "ladylike."

July 8, 2015

SUZANNE FIELDS: Obama, America awash in sincerity and absurdity

CHICAGO -- That was a strange week, with intersecting conversations between and among Americans trying to absorb mind-crashing events that fed high- and lowbrow attitudes, populist and patrician criticisms, sophisticated and naive pronouncements. There were absurdities and abominations, a massacre and amazing grace. Politics was writ large, accompanied by the rumble of rhetoric shaped to fit the emotional tyranny of the moment rather than great truths.

July 1, 2015

SUZANNE FIELDS: Bereaved Charleston families teach power of forgiveness

Nothing so moved so many in the aftermath of the Charleston massacre as the heartfelt expressions of grace and forgiveness for Dylann Roof by the families of the slain. Nothing so astonished the rest of us than the expressions of pity and pleas for mercy for the young man standing before the judge at his bond hearing.

June 24, 2015

SUZANNE FIELDS: Elderly enjoying economic sweet spot

We've launched another generation of graduates to seek a fortune that seems more elusive than usual. The world seems more upside down than usual. The graduates will discover, if they have not discovered already, that we're a divided nation. Republicans and Democrats, conservatives and liberals, rich and poor, have always sounded their differences in the arena. But there's another division that's difficult for even the most skilled politicians to talk about. It's the economic divide between young and old.

June 17, 2015

SUZANNE FIELDS: Change in Hillary Clinton’s campaign strategy

When Hillary Rodham Clinton first ran for president eight years ago she learned what Mike Tyson meant when he said, "Everyone has a plan 'til they get punched in the mouth." Her campaign collapsed under Barack Obama's relentless pounding.

June 10, 2015

SUZANNE FIELDS: Beau Biden: Americans share Joe Biden’s grief

Public grief is suspect in Washington. It comes too easily to those who use it to manipulate attitudes and make political points. Lobbyists, advocates and opinion makers are quick to exploit grief to push a policy to spend government money, ban guns, control climate, regulate lives. Death quickly morphs into a political cause.

June 3, 2015

SUZANNE FIELDS: Does a young Marco Rubio threaten an older Hillary Clinton?

The Grand Old Party suffers an embarrassment of riches, with a surplus of experienced candidates with formidable resumes. Hillary Clinton is an embarrassment with riches. She has lots of experiences, not all of them good.

May 27, 2015

SUZANNE FIELDS: How the liberal left is killing free speech

Do blondes really have more fun? That's a question often thrown at a serious woman with brainy gray matter under her golden tresses. The popular perception that blondes paid for those tresses with diminished intellectual power remains pervasive in the culture (you could Google it). But it's specifically used as a cudgel by the left if a particular blonde is a conservative. These critics increasingly employ a variation on the theme to disparage any good-looking blonde you're likely to find on one specific network. (Guess which one.)

May 20, 2015

SUZANNE FIELDS: Michelle Obama and the race card

Michelle Obama can give as good as she gets, and she's getting a hard time from conservatives over two speeches she gave last week. The first was a commencement speech at Tuskegee University in Alabama, and the other was at the opening of the new Whitney Museum of American Art in downtown New York City.

May 13, 2015