select writings from (relatively) recent years
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How to Get a 140-Pound Newfoundland Across the Country
Condé Nast Traveler, February 23, 2015
I Nearly Died, So What?
The New York Times Sunday Review, November 14, 2014
Difference Maker
The New Yorker, September 29, 2014
Lena Dunham Is Not Done Confessing
The New York Times Magazine, September 10, 2014
Haterade
The Believer, January 2012
This Is Not Forty
The New Yorker online, December 29, 2012
What Would Hannah Horvath Make of Elizabeth Wurtzel?
The New Yorker online, January 11, 2013
In Praise of Messy Thinking: On Katie Roiphe
Los Angeles Review of Books, September 4, 2012,
Having, or Making, or Thinking About Making a Drink: On Joan Didion's Blue Nights
Los Angeles Review of Books, October 28, 2011
The essay My Misspent Youth, which originally appeared in The New Yorker in 1999, is available as a Longform reprint.
Los Angeles Times
Meghan's column about politics and social issues appeared on the Los Angeles Times op-ed page from 2005 to 2016.
Recent columns are below. Select columns from previous years can be found here.
July 29, 2018 We're All Bound And Gagged By The Social Media Mob Now
May 25, 2018 In The Age of #MeToo, Philip Roth Offered An Unlikely Blueprint for Feminists
March 16, 2018 A New Movement To Speak Truth To Identity Politics Is Our Best Hope Against Regressive Thinking
January 27, 2018 Had Enough of the Visceral Response to the Trump Era? Try A Little Nuance Instead
March 5, 2017 A Day Without A Woman Is A Strike For Privileged Protestors
December 25, 2016 "Special Snowflake" Is The Triscuit Of Insults: Banish It In 2017
December 8, 2016 Identity Politics Did In Clinton, But Not The Way You Think
November 24, 2016 Trumpocalypse Now: Are You Panicking Or Taking A Deep Breath?
November 6, 2016 We Have A Chance To Make History By Electing America's First Woman President. Why Aren't We Celebrating?
October 27, 2016 All Trump Gropes Are Bad, But They Aren't All Equal Or Equally Horrible
October 12, 2016 Clinton The Resilient Shows She's Tougher Than Trump The Bully
September 29, 2016 Donald Trump Takes Mansplaining To An Even Lower Level--Dumbsplaining
September 15, 2016 Could a Clinton Presidency Unleash a Post-Gender Society? Not a Chance.
September 1, 2016 When It Comes To Campus Groupthink, Trigger Warnings Aren't The Half Of It
August 16, 2016 What Hillary Clinton And Simone Biles Have In Common
August 4, 2016 Why Trump Can't Tell The Difference Between A Twitter War And A Presidential Campaign
July 21, 2016 Why The Weasel Word "Problematic" Should Be Banned
July 7, 2016 Will Hillary Clinton Throw Down And Name Elizabeth Warren As Her Running Mate?
June 23, 2015 My White Privilege Meets Sonia Sotomayor's Scathing Attack On Police Power
June 9, 2016 The Dangerous Irony of Rape Accusation Culture
May 26, 2016 Why The Right Hides From Its Own Good Luck
May 12, 2016 Madeleine Albright A War Criminal? Scripps College's Baffling Crusade of Simple Thinking
April 28, 2016 #FreeToBleed? No Thanks. Sometimes Discretion Is The Better Part of Activism
April 14, 2016 If You're Shocked By Donald Trump, It's Probably Time To Take the Bubble Quiz
April 7, 2016 The GOP's Misogyny Problem Is Bigger Than Trump
March 17, 2016 Will Evangelicals Take Trump on Faith?
March 3, 2016 The "Stand By Your Man" Feminism of Hillary Clinton
February 18, 2016 Scalia and Ginsburg: The End of a Beautiful Friendship
February 4, 2016 Curvy Or No, Barbie Is Still A Mean Girl
January 21, 2016 Yes, Millennials, Hillary Clinton Is A Feminist
January 7, 2016
December 10, 2015 Forget "Bleeding Heart Liberals," The GOP Is Now The Party Of Feelings
November 25, 2015 Eat, Shop, Click: Another Kind of Black Friday
November 12, 2015 Protests at Mizzou and Yale Reveal More Than PC Problems
October 29, 2015 Sanders and Clinton: What's All The Shouting About?
October 15, 2015 Right To Dry Movement Gets Its Day In The Sun
October 1, 2015 A Presidential Campaign As Reality TV
September 17, 2015 Right to Die Laws: Do We Have The Gumption To Make Such Big Life Decisions
August 26, 2015 With Flippant Adoption Comment, Jonathan Franzen Births Social Media Outrage
August 20, 205 In A Way, We All Work for Amazon Now
August 6, 2015 Does Cosmo Deserve a Plain Brown Wrapper?
July 23, 2015 Give Atticus' Parents a Break
July 9, 2015 Over The Facebook Rainbow
June 11, 2015 Will Smart Looking Glasses Do The Trick for Rick Perry?
June 1, 2015 "Jezebel Effect" Poisons Conversations on Gender and Sexual Violence
May 26, 2015 Time For Young Feminists To Look Past The Mattress and Campus Rape
May 14, 2015 The Hung Jury In The Etan Patz Case Was Right
April 29, 2015 Has Millennial Self-Esteem Become Self-Righteouness?
April 16, 2015 Hillary Clinton's No-Knife, No-Botox Run for the White House
March 18, 2015 Hillary Clinton and Us: Portrait of an Abusive Relationship
March 4, 2015 How Grievance Culture Undercuts the Fight Against Rape Culture
February 18, 2015 The Westminster Dog Show Doesn't Deserve PETA's Bite
February 12, 2015 Fifty Shades of Grey's Allure: Sex or Money?
February 2, 2015 Political Correctness is Back in Hurricane Force
January 21, 2015 Does Mike Huckabee Want to Be President? Or Beyoncé's Bassist?
January 14, 2015 Why Blaming Leelah Alcorn's Parents Only Compounds the Bigotry
January 7, 2015 Mansplaining? Windbags Come in Both Genders
January 2, 2015 Hollywood's Idealized View of CIA Officers Is No Substitute for Reality