Becoming the new feminine ideal requires just the right combination of insecurity, exercise, bulimia and surgery.

America is one of the few places where the failure to promote oneself is widely regarded as arrogance.

At college my three main interests were - in descending order of importance - a steady supply of recreational drugs, a 2-S draft deferment, and overthrowing the Nixon administration.

Keith Knight is mapping out a previously unknown vector of the vast cartoon universe.

That's what fiction writers do: create characters and do terrible things to them for the entertainment of others. If they feel guilty enough, they write happy endings.

Isn't it possible that self-esteem isn't causal at all, but simply the happy side effect of a sturdy character, itself the product of unambiguous moral education?

Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated.