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On July Fourth weekend, a photograph made the rounds on social media. Cynthia Nixon, the actress and activist, lounges in a boat, smirking at the camera. Perched jauntily on...

I love dinner parties. I love attending them, and I love throwing them even more. When I was a child, my parents had lively dinners every week—sometimes raucous, always...

Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven,...

This summer, my husband and I took a cruise through the breathtakingly magnificent fjords of Norway and Denmark, making stops at towns and villages along the way. At the...

In 1990, my husband and I were married by Richard John Neuhaus. Also in 1990, he founded a little journal called . . . First Things. How often, these days,...

In 2015, Columbia University was in an uproar over Ovid’s Metamorphoses, which was, at the time, required reading for the freshman class. The classic Roman myths include tales of...

Once upon a time, when you turned off Route 1 onto Washington Road, you knew you were approaching a rare and wonderful place. A long avenue flanked on both...

On a leafy street in Carnegie Hill, in the heart of Manhattan’s Upper East Side, sits the Nightingale-Bamford School, founded in 1920 by Miss Nightingale (joined later by Miss...

The Church of England isn’t sure what a woman is. “There is no official definition, which reflects the fact that until fairly recently definitions of this kind were thought...

My husband and I recently left the city after a lifetime on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. Following in the footsteps of Chip and Joanna Gaines, or better yet, Cary...

I came to be an actress, or something like that. I stayed to raise a daughter. Along the way, I grew up and lived a life. New York, I...

To Bishop Andrew Dietsche, Episcopal Diocese of New York: As an Episcopalian in New York City, I regularly receive emails from you expressing concern and even outrage about a wide...

We play a game in my family called Blame It on W. At first, we were a little slow to understand the rules, but, living on the Upper West...

For the past two years, I have been the head “Library Mommy” at my daughter’s private nursery school. The children tell me what books they have or have not...

The Abolition of Marriage: How We Detroy Lasting Love By Maggie Gallagher Regnery, 300 pages, $24.95 Maggie Gallagher’s newest book, The Abolition of Marriage , is a tough, passionate...