JoAnn Wypijewski

JoAnn Wypijewski is a writer in New York. Contact her at jwyp at earthlink.net.

Currently

  • The Love We Lost

    January 21, 2010

    Like the terrorist, the sex offender is a new category of human being.

2009

  • Red Scare, Black Scare

    November 18, 2009

    The birthers, the anticommunist crazies, the "Obama as Witch Doctor" caricatures: they're all of a piece, welded to sex.

  • Sexual Healing

    September 9, 2009

    "Female sexual dysfunction" is a case in point of a runaway medical system that requires huge profits, hence new sicknesses, pills and procedures.

  • Triangles

    July 1, 2009 Subscribe

    The latest political sex scandal isn't a scandal at all but a circumstance as old and common as time.

  • Return of the Fabulous

    May 27, 2009

    In the end, the vote was silly or sad, but for eighteen weeks on American Idol, Adam Lambert was Everyman and Everygayman, skating the edge of ecstasy and terror.

  • Through a Lens Starkly

    April 29, 2009

    A rash of teen "sexting" has turned educators and law enforcement officials into instant oglers, hunting for crimes where none are intended.

  • Sexual Trauma & Repressed Memory

    April 8, 2009 Subscribe

  • Crisis of Faith

    February 25, 2009

    As the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court reviews defrocked priest Paul Shanley's conviction on child rape charges, "repressed memory" will be held up to scientific scrutiny.

2008

  • The Kiss

    December 23, 2008

    Let us pause, amid the muddle of the moment in this season of renewal and fresh starts, to consider fundamental things.

  • Scenes From the Crackup

    October 16, 2008

    Behind the scrim of boom times there was always debt and sex--and the intimate economy of panic and desire.

  • Beauty and the Beast

    September 10, 2008

    The old warrior deploys sex as a central political weapon to recharge his potency and his party's fortunes. Is there a trap here?

  • The Shadow of His Smile

    July 16, 2008

    A desperately needy America warms to the hot married love of Barack and Michelle.

  • Notes on a Scandal

    March 17, 2008

    The Spitzer affair's obvious rationality continues to elude the therapists, sexperts and pundits for whom shame is the game.

  • Postcards From Ohio

    February 28, 2008

    The white working-class vote is on the line--so is the myth of Clinton-era good times.

2007

  • Bad Sex in the City

    December 12, 2007

    There's something untrustworthy about a man who can't conduct a decent affair. Rudy Giuliani never could.

2005

  • States of Disunion

    August 11, 2005

    In the wake of the labor split, nothing revolutionary or even progressive is discernible in this schism.

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Blogs

» Editor's Cut

New Web Column at The Washington Post | Every Tuesday, I'll be featuring progressive thinking about politics and challenging the Right in my new web column for The Washington Post. Read my first one here.
Katrina vanden Heuvel
9 Comments
Posted at 4:52 PM ET

» The Notion

When Snow Melts: Vancouver’s Olympic Crackdown | Anger is growing in Vancouver in advance of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. Like Olympic clockwork, here comes the media crackdown.
Dave Zirin
32 Comments

» The Dreyfuss Report

The Mind-Boggling Stupidity of Michael Rubin | How an AEI apparatchik's love affair for Ahmed Chalabi blinds him to Chalabi's pro-Iran treachery.
Robert Dreyfuss
25 Comments

» The Beat

John Murtha: The Old Soldier Who Said "Bring the Troops Home" | His Iraq War debate with Dick Cheney highlighted the difference between the modern era's sunshine patriots and winter soldiers.
John Nichols
107 Comments

» Act Now!

Demand Question Time | Join the call for the President and Congress to implement regular Question Time sessions.
Peter Rothberg
53 Comments

» And Another Thing

How to Counterbalance Focus on the Family on Superbowl Sunday | Give to help low income girls and women.
Katha Pollitt
53 Comments

» Altercation

Slacker Friday | James O'Keefe and Alter-reviews.
Eric Alterman