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Daniel Akst

Daniel Akst is a writer in New York's Hudson Valley. He is the author of The Webster Chronicle, a novel.

Articles By Daniel Akst

  • The Shirt From Hell

    The appalling rise of the smelly, sweaty, scratchy no-iron shirt.

    Daniel Akst | FASHION | Monday, Oct. 3, 2011, at 4:13 PM ET

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  • The Odysseus Option

    How "precommitment devices" will force you to lose weight, stop drinking, and not sleep with that jerk on a first date.

    Daniel Akst | MONEYBOX | Friday, Jan. 21, 2011, at 12:46 PM ET

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  • Bang for Your Buck

    You have $1. How should you spend it to do the most good?

    Daniel Akst | THE BEST POLICY | Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2006, at 12:30 PM ET

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  • Got SUV Guilt?

    Peace of mind can be yours for $274.

    Daniel Akst | THE BEST POLICY | Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2005, at 4:28 PM ET

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  • Where Have All the Jockstraps Gone?

    The decline and fall of the athletic supporter.

    Daniel Akst | SPORTS NUT | Friday, July 22, 2005, at 11:20 AM ET

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  • Faster Pussycat! Read! Read!

    Can our reporter train himself to read as fast as the guy in the Guinness Book of Records?

    Daniel Akst | ARTICLES | Friday, Feb. 18, 2000, at 9:30 PM ET

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  • Dissecting the Day's News

    Judith Shulevitz, Katha Pollitt, Andrew Sullivan, Arianna S. Huffington, Harry Shearer, Malcolm Gladwell, Wendy Kaminer, David Brooks, Susan Estrich, Nell Minow, David Edelstein, Ruth Conniff, David Frum, Lucianne Goldberg, Erik Tarloff, Margo Howard, Alex Beam, Herbert Stein, Nadine Strossen, Alex Kozinski, Susan Estrich, Stuart Taylor Jr., Daniel Akst, Lisa DePaulo, Alan Brinkley, Sarah Lyall, Barbara Ehrenreich, Nicholas Von Hoffman, Stephen Graham, Wendy Wasserstein, Susan Cheever, Benjamin Cheever, Christopher Caldwell, Abigail Thernstrom, Stephan Thernstrom, Julie Lasky, Maud Lavin, Sally Quinn, Eric Tarloff, Jeffrey Goldberg, Susan Orlean, E.J. Dionne, Amity Shlaes, Midge Decter, Norman Podhoretz, Cullen Murphy, Margaret O'Brien Steinfels, Michael Hirschorn, Mim Udovitch, Peter Pringle, Gideon Rose, Charles Paul Freund, Kim Masters, Sarah Kerr, Edward Rothstein, Atul Gawande, Marjorie Williams, Geraldine Brooks, Tony Horwitz, Paul Krugman, Kathleen M. Sullivan, Stanley Aronowitz, Ellen Willis, Mary Kaldor, Clive Crook, Anne Applebaum, James Gibney, Steven Brill, Margaret Carlson, Cathy Young, Neal Dolan, Katha Pollitt, Sam Tanenhaus, David Carr, Jill Stewart, Robert Christgau, Danyel Smith, Lisa Zeidner, John Allen Paulos, Christopher Benfey, Elaine Showalter, Christopher Caldwell, Daphne Merkin, and Jodie T. Allen | THE BREAKFAST TABLE | Wednesday, June 23, 1999, at 1:06 AM ET

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  • Passive Aggressive

    Index investing is evil.

    Daniel Akst | ARTICLES | Saturday, Aug. 2, 1997, at 3:30 AM ET

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