Madeline Fry Schultz

Washington, D.C., United States

Assistant Contributors Editor at Washington Examiner

Contributors editor @dcexaminer, visiting fellow @IWF, & contributing writer @verilymag.

Articles

Mothers go to space

1 week ago | washingtonexaminer.com | Madeline Fry Schultz

Someone missed the space travel invite, and she doesn’t seem happy about it. Actress Olivia Munn recently ripped into the all-female crew set to take an 11-minute flight through the Earth’s atmosphere on Monday in a Blue Origin rocket. “There’s a lot of people who can’t even afford eggs,” Munn complained on TODAY with Jenna & Friends last week.
On Mobs and Mobsters

3 weeks ago | thedispatch.com | Jonah Goldberg |Tim Brinkhof |Madeline Fry Schultz |Charlotte Lawson

It will keep getting stupider. Published March 29, 2025 Having exhausted his Jeffrey/Jonah Goldberg jokes on The Dispatch Podcast, Jonah Goldberg launches into an epic rant on the tyranny of intellectual mobs, the flaws of morally blind due process, and the emerging artificial intelligence anime art movement. Plus: long-view Signal-gate revelations and the superficial logic of the Trump administration’s tariff strategy.
Right-Wing Comedy Is Winning the Culture War

3 weeks ago | thedispatch.com | Tim Brinkhof |Kevin Williamson |Jeff Maurer |Madeline Fry Schultz

Society & Culture How comedians, podcasters, and internet trolls helped Donald Trump retake the White House. Published March 29, 2025 Scroll to the comments section Audio versions are only available to subscribers of The Dispatch. Join Today! to listen to this post.
Who asked for this Snow White remake?

3 weeks ago | washingtonexaminer.com | Madeline Fry Schultz

Not since 2023’s Barbie have conservatives found a film they so love to hate. Snow White’s press tour was doomed from the start, with lead actress Rachel Zegler first bashing the source material and then proudly endorsing various progressive shibboleths. If all press really were good press, the film probably wouldn’t have had such a middling opening weekend. The unfavorable reviews certainly haven’t helped. But despite its infamy, the new Snow White is far from woke.
Ilona Maher Is Bringing Body Positivity Back

1 month ago | verilymag.com | Madeline Fry Schultz

More than five years ago, the New Yorker writer Jia Tolentino proclaimed that we were living in the age of “Instagram face.” Thanks to pressure from social media, she wrote, the female beauty standard had been distilled into “a single, cyborgian look.” You probably know what she’s talking about if you spend any time on social media or following pop stars, who all seem to have the look of a Los Angeles model, iced matcha in her hands and filler in her lips.
To tallow or not to tallow

1 month ago | washingtonexaminer.com | Madeline Fry Schultz

Certain foods stand out as political signifiers: You’re to see Republicans at a steakhouse chowing down on a rare filet and less likely to see them at the local salad bar ordering a vegetarian greens and grains bowl. Democrats are more predisposed to their ice cream fix from Ben & Jerry’s or perhaps former President Joe Biden’s beloved Jeni’s. Post-2023, you’re less likely to see a Republican-coded figure drinking a Bud Light — unless it’s comedian Shane Gillis.
Woman, erased - Washington Examiner

1 month ago | washingtonexaminer.com | Madeline Fry Schultz

There was seemingly no end to the rhetorical indignities women suffered under the Biden administration. First, their federal government referred to them as “birthing people.” Then, they were “menstruators.” They have also been known as “people with vaginas” and other vulgar terms, reducing them to their parts and bodily functions. Under the Trump administration, women are women again.
The part of motherhood Hollywood usually ignores

2 months ago | denvergazette.com | Madeline Fry Schultz

It’s rare to see a film featuring a woman who desperately wants to be pregnant. If you learned about pregnancy from Hollywood comedies, you’d think getting pregnant and having a baby is a disaster that can befall you, not something people deeply wish for, pray for, pay for, and plan for. To watch films such as Juno (the parents are teenagers), Knocked Up (baby daddy is an unemployed stoner), and Bridget Jones's Baby (baby daddy is ...
Woke? I don’t know the meaning of the word!

2 months ago | washingtonexaminer.com | Madeline Fry Schultz

President Donald Trump is back at the White House, so politics are back at awards shows. Accepting an award for “global impact” at the Grammys over the weekend, singer Alicia Keys alluded to the president’s executive order banning diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives in the federal government. “This is not the time to shut down the diversity of voices,” she said.
REVIEW: ‘Nightbitch’

2 months ago | iwf.org | Carly Moran |Madeline Fry Schultz

The horror-comedy Nightbitch, now streaming on Hulu, centers on an unnamed Mother (Amy Adams), who struggles to adapt to her life as a stay-at-home mom two years on. She and her son spend most of their days at home, punctuating their lives with occasional visits to the park and library. This mother has no real friends, no family to speak of, and a husband who travels for work; when he’s home, well, he might as well still be gone.