Standing out against the ever-growing crowd of advice columnists, Carolyn Hax dispenses wisdom for the under-30 crowd in The Washington Post's "Style" section every Friday and Sunday. In both her newspaper columns and her online chats, she delivers no-nonsense advice with a dollop of humor, often adopting the voice of the advice seeker. Yet, perhaps most impressive of all, Hax's ruthless pragmatism allows her to deftly avoid any hint of moralizing -- an approach that readers on both sides of 30 are likely to appreciate.

Kevin Tiernan