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<title><![CDATA[Suzanne Fields - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/14936.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Suzanne Fields]]></description><category domain="14936">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Looking Forward in Anger]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/12/28/looking_forward_in_anger_139033.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 28 Dec 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Suzanne Fields</author>
							<description><![CDATA['Tis the season to be angry. The president is angry at the Democrats for not allocating enough money to build the border wall. The Democrats are angry at the president for wanting one.
Civil servants are angry at both parties for closing the government and putting thousands on furlough....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Kavanaugh's Shadow Over the Midterms]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/11/09/kavanaughs_shadow_over_the_midterms_138609.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 09 Nov 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Suzanne Fields</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Brett Kavanaugh has been sitting on the Supreme Court for only a month, and the memory of his confirmation hearings cast a strong shadow over the Tuesday congressional elections. You could ask Sens. Claire McCaskill in Missouri, Heidi Heitkamp in North Dakota or Joe Donnelley in Indiana....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Fear and Loathing of Jordan Peterson]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/08/18/fear_and_loathing_of_jordan_peterson_137836.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 18 Aug 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Suzanne Fields</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Ah, men! This is the ultimate exclamation of women, frustrated, puzzled and baffled by the other half of the human race, forever a riddle wrapped in ambiguity, ambivalence, anticipation -- and admiration and affection. The exclamation has never been static. That frustration and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How #MeToo Revives the Damsel in Distress]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/03/10/how_metoo_revives_the_damsel_in_distress_136493.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 10 Mar 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Suzanne Fields</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Oscar has no penis. That was the startling revelation of Jimmy Kimmel in his opening monologue at the Academy Awards. This statue of limitations will be remembered for the attention Oscar got in 2018 for being neutered, not to be confused with being transgender. Who knew?
This is the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Nation Divided By Identity Politics]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/08/25/a_nation_divided_by_identity_politics_134835.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 25 Aug 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Suzanne Fields</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Every generation has its own axe to grind, attitudes to assume and enemies to attack. It's the way the young move into maturity, sometimes with smarts and sometimes without. Every generation wants to make the world over in its own image.
Action and reaction can be creative as well as...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Nikki Haley: Trump's Cabinet Superstar]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/08/11/nikki_haley_trumps_cabinet_superstar_134724.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 11 Aug 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Suzanne Fields</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Donald Trump has a skill for recruiting Cabinet officers he has treated badly. Serving in his administration can require selfless devotion to duty. Jeff Sessions, the attorney general, could tell you about that. So could Nikki Haley, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[When Nationalism Is a Worthy Twin of Patriotism]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/07/07/when_nationalism_is_a_worthy_twin_of_patriotism_134394.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jul 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Suzanne Fields</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Former President Barack Obama's speech in Indonesia in which he warned of "an aggressive kind of nationalism" has drawn both criticism and applause, depending on the politics of who was listening. But it ignited a useful and needed debate on the actual meaning of nationalism.
The word...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Meryl and Madonna Pour New Whine Into Old Battles]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/01/13/meryl_and_madonna_pour_new_whine_into_old_battles_132781.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Suzanne Fields</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Women are angry, this time with President-elect Donald Trump. But they're mad about a lot of other things, too. They've come a long way, baby, but a lot of them don't like what they see as they look over their shoulders back into the future. I'm not talking about the women's march on...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Intellectual Argument for the Trump Presidency]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/01/07/the_intellectual_argument_for_the_trump_presidency_132732.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Suzanne Fields</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Everyone's wondering just what kind of president Donald Trump will make. Democrats and Republicans, liberals and conservatives, and Tories and Whigs (there must still be a few of them tucked away somewhere) who are still talking to one another have embraced timid and tentative...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA['That's What Freedom Sounds Like']]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2016/11/25/thats_what_freedom_sounds_like_132434.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Suzanne Fields</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We gather together to ask the Lord's blessing, to hasten and chasten our will to partake of turkey and the fruits of the field as we imagine the Pilgrims did at their first Thanksgiving in 1621. We actually know little of their menu, and it may not please the traditionalists or the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Harsh and Mean -- Politics as Usual]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2016/10/09/harsh_and_mean_--_politics_as_usual_132005.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 09 Oct 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Suzanne Fields</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Every four years we get not only a presidential election but also a ferocious debate over how we elect the president. Is this really the best way to elect the leader of the United States and, by default, the leader of the free world? Must we be satisfied with campaigns that become...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[No Camouflage for Character in First Debate]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2016/10/04/no_camouflage_for_character_in_first_debate_131962.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Suzanne Fields</author>
							<description><![CDATA[So much anticipation, so little satisfaction. So much hype, so little substance. The first debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump was advertised as a championship fight between two eager brawlers. Both were expected to find the other's weak spot, hammer away, punch, counterpunch...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trading Places in the Homestretch]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2016/09/16/trading_places_in_the_homestretch_131799.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 16 Sep 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Suzanne Fields</author>
							<description><![CDATA[What an opportunity Hillary Clinton missed with her talk about "basket" cases. She blew a chance to broaden empathy for the unhappy, dissatisfied, disenchanted voters who find Donald Trump's message of strength -- making America great again -- important and crucial. She demeaned all...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Hurry Up, Please. It's Time.]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2016/09/09/hurry_up_please_its_time_131736.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Suzanne Fields</author>
							<description><![CDATA[T.S. Eliot thought April is the cruelest month. But he didn't live long enough to sample the 2016 presidential campaign. Besides, he skipped the country to take up citizenship in England.
September and October are the cruelest months this year, leading out of a long, hot summer to the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Higher Education, Beyond Parody]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2016/09/02/higher_education_beyond_parody_131683.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 02 Sep 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Suzanne Fields</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The University of Chicago is an intellectually elite school that can make fun of its seriousness. The slogans on undergraduate T-shirts immortalize it as "The level of hell Dante forgot" or the school "Where fun comes to die." They're only half-joking.
Chicago students take pride in...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Evasion and Euphemism Give Trump the Edge]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2016/06/18/obamas_evasion_and_euphemism_give_trump_the_edge.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jun 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Suzanne Fields</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Tragedy brings out the best in people and the worst in people. When it is presented on stage, we hold with Aristotle that it evokes pity, fear and the terrifying understanding that "there, but for the grace of God, go I."
To the ancient Greek philosopher, tragedy offered insight into the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Hit Job as Transparent as a Bikini]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2016/05/22/a_hit_job_as_transparent_as_a_bikini_130638.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 22 May 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Suzanne Fields</author>
							<description><![CDATA["Donald J. Trump had barely met Rowanne Brewer Lane when he asked her to change out of her clothes."
"Oh, boy," readers of The New York Times thought when they picked up the Sunday paper and read that opening line of a story on the presumptive Republican presidential nominee. Here comes...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Andrew Jackson Gets a Second Look After a $20 Misunderstanding]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2016/04/29/andrew_jackson_gets_a_second_look_after_a_20_misunderstanding_130428.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Suzanne Fields</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The inquiring mind of a young friend of mine, a junior at a Washington high school, wants to know: "What's the meaning of moving Andrew Jackson to the back of the $20 bill?" He doesn't discount the achievements of Harriet Tubman, who is celebrated in classrooms from kindergarten on....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Antique Feminism of Hillary Clinton]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/12/21/the_antique_feminism_of_hillary_clinton_129101.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Suzanne Fields</author>
							<description><![CDATA[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 Clinton story of the Republican week was about how she is losing traction with the new generation of women...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can Hillary Clinton, as First Grandmother, Light Partisan Fire?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/08/30/can_hillary_clinton_as_first_grandmother_light_partisan_fire_127927.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Suzanne Fields</author>
							<description><![CDATA[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. She was a senator then and didn't want to emphasize the differences in men and women in their approach to making policy.
This time,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton's Unsavory Past Returns--With Sharp New Teeth]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/08/01/hillary_clintons_unsavory_past_returns--with_sharp_new_teeth_127624.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Suzanne Fields</author>
							<description><![CDATA["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 we're all about to be treated to "a little deja vu all over again."
The many sexual...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Killing of Free Speech]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/05/24/the_killing_of_free_speech_126708.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Suzanne Fields</author>
							<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Ignorance in the Common Core]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/02/21/ignorance_in_the_common_core_125689.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Suzanne Fields</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Another Presidents Day, like the presidents it was meant to honor, has come and gone and nobody remembers what it was all about, beyond another three-day weekend for federal employees and a little hype to sell automobiles and snake oil. Presidents Day replaces holidays to mark the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[No Room on Campus for the Bigot Shakespeare]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2014/05/17/no_room_on_campus_for_the_bigot_shakespeare_122663.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Suzanne Fields</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If Shakespeare were alive and invited to give the commencement address at a major American university, the favorite spring sport on campus would explode with loud and shrill protest.
Blacks could object to Othello, the angry, "erring barbarian" wife-murderer. Jews could protest Shylock,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Glamor Swims With Sharks at the Oscars]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/03/01/glamor_swims_with_sharks_at_the_oscars__117219.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Suzanne Fields</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Conservatives usually have a few bones to pick with Hollywood over the Academy Awards. Not content with merely opening it, Hollywood pushes the envelope, often with questionable taste and mockery of common values.
Nevertheless, Washington and Hollywood are linked at the hip like Siamese...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Genderfication of Adolescence]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/02/22/genderfication_of_adolescence__117121.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Suzanne Fields</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Not so long ago, "gender" was something mostly of interest to flirtatious nouns. But then, as the culture became both more vulgar and more squeamish, "gender" replaced "sex" as the distinction between "him" and "her." Now "date," which described how him and her got acquainted, is...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Plagiarism and Politics in Berlin]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/02/15/plagiarism_and_politics_in_berlin__117029.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Suzanne Fields</author>
							<description><![CDATA[BERLIN -- The Germans play "gotcha" with a decidedly Teutonic skill and attitude. The latest victim is Annette Schavan, Chancellor Merkel's education minister, who resigned her position in a gathering storm of accusations that she plagiarized the doctoral dissertation she wrote 32 years...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Forbidden Advice for Plain Jane in Combat]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/02/08/forbidden_advice_for_plain_jane_in_combat__116957.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Suzanne Fields</author>
							<description><![CDATA[American women have been cleared for combat, but the generals at the Pentagon only think they are the very model of the modern major general.
Women have been locked in combat since Adam and Eve were thrown out of the Garden of Eden. Men and women have been fighting the unending war...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Hearts and Flowers for Hillary]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/02/01/hearts_and_flowers_for_hillary__116886.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Suzanne Fields</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton got an early Valentine from President Obama, leaving Joe Biden to celebrate Groundhog Day alone. Perhaps the veep sees a shadow already (you can't blame him for looking over his shoulder), and he'll burrow underground.
CBS News should have employed the entire string...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Diversity With Conceit]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/01/25/diversity_with_conceit__116793.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Suzanne Fields</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The diversity warriors, with no sense of humor and short on irony, keep looking for victims in all the old places. President Obama, advertising his inaugural address as a call to unity and a "coming together as one people," rounded up the usual suspects as if nothing in America had...]]></description>
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