Alexandra Schwartz
Alexandra Schwartz
Recent Stories
Schwartz: Presidential tricks
Election years make for the best Halloweens. I discovered this in 1996, when I was overcome by the irresistible urge to borrow a jacket and tie from my father and go trick-or-treating wearing an enormous rubber Bill Clinton mask.
Schwartz: Man’s idea of woman
Here’s hoping that America’s women and men won’t be fooled.
Sex’s grip on politics now tighter than our own
Considering the deadlock currently stalling the Democratic nomination process, it’s been something of a diversion to have sex play such a prominent role in politics over the last couple of weeks.
Weight of swastika heavier outside the bubble
But is an incident like this really worse when it happens at Yale than when it happens elsewhere in the city, the country or the world?
Days later, officials still ignoring ‘sluts’ incident
It’s been interesting, to say the least, to follow the fallout of last week’s “Yale sluts” incident.
A truly modern Yale has nothing to do with size
A little while ago, I participated in an activity in which a group of Yalies were asked to imagine a modern university. Armed with a theoretical endowment equal to Yale’s, we first jotted down ideas and then discussed, argued and formed coalitions.
Strange bedfellows: Musharraf the American
“He broke laws, he violated the Constitution, he usurped arbitrary power, he trampled individual liberties,” President Bush said the other day, denouncing General Pervez Musharraf, who had just declared Pakistan to be in a state of emergency. Hold on a minute — I seem to have gotten my notes confused.
Sharing visual information crucial to world peace
As a photojournalist from Japan, Nagai traveled to conflict-ridden regions, documenting the things he saw for the benefit of the rest of the world. The Times of England reported that Nagai’s mantra was, “Someone has to go to the places nobody wants to go.”
Levin can learn from Bollinger’s approach
Bollinger’s shoot-’em-up bravado couldn’t be more different from Levin’s buddy-buddy relationship with Hu.
Shopping reveals flaws in distribution areas
If you have stared at the online course selections over the last week, wondering which of the thousands of classes offered here will help you to uncover those “secrets of the hoary deep,” then you know something of the Dark Lord’s own struggle to dominate the universe.