Suzanne Fields

FIELDS: Millennials play the confidence game

No generation stands still for a snapshot. Even when making a selfie, friends, acquaintances and bystanders sneak into the frame, ruining the message that it's "all about me."

March 12, 2014

FIELDS: Oscars’ fantasy on the Left Coast

The Academy Awards are the Left Coast's great cultural event of the year, more important to the stars than a Hillary Clinton fundraiser.

March 5, 2014

FIELDS: New reminders of an old, old story

German investigators have arrested three old men who were particularly brutal guards at Auschwitz, ages 88, 92 and 94. They're old, but the last of the survivors of the death camps are old, too.

February 26, 2014

FIELDS: ‘Monuments Men’ rescued art and history

The National Gallery of Art stands between the White House and the Capitol, bracketed by other museums exhibiting treasures ranging from the red shoes Judy Garland wore in the movie "The Wizard of Oz" to the Apollo 11 space module that went to the moon and back, to a Leonardo da Vinci portrait reckoned as his best work short of the Mona Lisa.

February 19, 2014

FIELDS: First ladies and second gentlemen

It's nearly Valentine's Day again. Girls and boys, children and teenagers, men and women of various sizes, colors and ages, parade sentiments about what they wish, think, enjoy, reflect or remember about this crazy thing called love.

February 12, 2014

FIELDS: Sex, death and loathing in Hollywood

Hollywood is glamorous on the screen and in the imaginations of millions. But when reality intrudes on the art, the grime of human ordinariness, with all its needs, desires and compulsions, comes into sharp focus. The shine flees from the tinsel.

February 5, 2014

FIELDS: Anti-Semitism on International Holocaust Remembrance Day

When the White House scribblers were putting the finishing touches on the State of the Union message, President Obama took a moment to commemorate memory. Monday was International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the 69th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, the most notorious of Adolf Hitler's death camps.

January 29, 2014

FIELDS: Jezebel and Vogue duking it out in feminist cat fight

There's a catfight on magazine row in New York, sort of. There's nothing ladylike about it. Jezebel magazine is the online gladiator, a feminist David with sling and arrows aimed at gorgeous women in expensive clothes. Vogue magazine, the target, is the glossy Goliath of svelte high fashion with lots of blush and eyeliner.

January 22, 2014

FIELDS: Sharon sought peace for his beloved Israel

When Ariel Sharon died on Saturday, the obituaries emphasized his strength as a military commander and political leader, recalling his brilliant counterattack across Suez to surround the Egyptian armies when Israel's very existence hung in the balance in the Yom Kippur War the Arabs almost won.

January 15, 2014

FIELDS: Are our universities shrugging off higher education?

The Renaissance Man is about to be bounced by Robot Man as the emblematic hero of our era. Data processing, computers and smartphones have become the primary means of communication, and the next generation of "educated persons" is likely to be as narrowly focused as flat-earthers before Galileo.

January 8, 2014

FIELDS: Love by the byte

The New Year explodes with dire prophesies for men and women and their mating patterns. If they're correct, or even close to it, the lot of men will not be a happy one — or for the women who love them (and want one of their own).

January 1, 2014

FIELDS: Scapegoating Israel, again

'Tis the season of the long holiday for toilers in the Groves of Academe

December 25, 2013

FIELDS: No pumpkin for Putin

Where you're born on the calendar of history makes all the difference in the world. We watch the protests of the young and restless unfold in Kiev's Independence Square and our sympathy goes out to them in their quest to be linked in partnership with the West.

December 18, 2013

FIELDS: Lessons from a lizard

There's excitement in the science world. They've rediscovered a lizard with a long nose, informally dubbed Pinocchio, which scientists thought was extinct. Columnists, comedians and satirists are excited, too.

December 11, 2013

FIELDS: Fields of folly

A gift of days with the extended family stretching from Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday inevitably invites reflection on the fields of folly where we find the rising generations at work and play.

December 4, 2013

FIELDS: Praise the pilgrims and pass the matzo balls

Thanksgiving is a wonderful holiday because it brings families and friends together for the simple purpose of giving thanks and being together.

November 27, 2013

FIELDS: Cheney siblings’ dirty laundry out of the closet

You could call it the "Catfight at Cheney Corral" (but if you do, you should expect feminist outrage). When Liz Cheney moved from the suburbs of the nation's capital to Wyoming to run for the U.S. Senate, she knew she was asking for trouble. She risked being called a "carpetbagger," but that has a sharper sting in Virginia than in Wyoming. By emphasizing her conservative roots, she pulled intimate and sensitive family laundry out for a public airing.

November 20, 2013

FIELDS: Kennedy assassination changed us forever

John F. Kennedy became more myth than man with his assassination, a half-century ago this month. Jackie Kennedy herself said so. A year after Dallas, in a memorial issue of the old Look magazine, she wrote that she had wanted to grow old with the man, to see their children grown up, but she was destined to grow old only with the myth. Only the legend survived.

November 13, 2013

FIELDS: The barrier between the geeks and suits

Edward Snowden's stolen secrets and the dismal failure of the rollout of Obamacare is giving electronic technology a bad name. But blaming high-tech tools is more of blaming the messenger. We have to work harder to master the secrets of the Internet, but the human element remains our biggest weakness.

November 6, 2013