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Hadley Freeman

Hadley Freeman is a columnist for The Sunday Times and author of Good Girls: A Story and Study of Anorexia. Follow her on X @HadleyFreeman.

Things Worth Remembering: On Being Safe, Free, and Miserable

In ‘A Real Pain,’ which deserves an Oscar today, Jesse Eisenberg asks: How dare we be so overwhelmed by our own freedom when our ancestors were denied…

March 2, 2025

What School Didn’t Teach Us: Perfectionism Can Destroy You

At elite private schools, you don’t learn how to think. You learn how to pass exams.

August 30, 2024

Watching Girls Die Online

Female starvation as spectacle has a very long history. But now ‘thinfluencers’ have millions of followers.

September 19, 2023

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