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

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No-iron shirts: These smelly, scratchy garments are the greatest fashion crime of our age.
Daniel Akst
Oct 03, 2011 4:13 PM
“Precommitment devices” will help you to lose weight, stop drinking, and not sleep with jerks on first dates.
Daniel Akst
Jan 21, 2011 12:46 PM
You have $1. Where to spend it?
Daniel Akst
Feb 14, 2006 12:30 PM
Guilty SUV owners against pollution.
Daniel Akst
Aug 16, 2005 4:28 PM
Where have all the jockstraps gone?
Daniel Akst
July 22, 2005 11:20 AM
Faster Pussycat! Read! Read!
Daniel Akst
Feb 18, 2000 9:30 PM
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
April 17, 1998 3:30 AM
Passive Aggressive
Daniel Akst
Aug 02, 1997 3:30 AM
Passive Aggressive
Daniel Akst
Aug 02, 1997 3:30 AM