Noah Berlatsky

I am on my knees in 15-degree weather scrubbing poop from the sidewalk, and I have an epiphany of sorts—I do not want this dog.

Fans of Batgirl are fans of Batgirl. They buy her comic to see her being heroic, not to see her being a slasher movie victim.

For a second, it looked like the rabid hordes of gamergaters would be joined by metalheads. But #metalgate was never meant to be.

The Lord of the Flies can feel like a vacation spot for conflict-management consultants in comparison to social media.

Bus ads comparing Muslims to Hitler have been replaced with images of a superhero. And not just any superhero.

With the prospect of another Bush/Clinton presidential contest looming as ominously as Donald Trump's hairpiece, the word "dynasty" seems to be frothing off of many a pundit's keyboard. "Clinton, Bush struggle to shed dynasty labels," a Washington Post headline declared.

Art without politics actually results in a sweeping Puritanism. For art to have power, it needs to engage with power, with politics.

Metal aggression isn't sexual, but existential. As a result, women in the genre are both rare and unexpectedly equal.

With the death of Leonard Nimoy, it's a good moment to pay tribute to (and question) his most famous character.

So, if there are so many ways to sing this song, and if it's meant different things at different points, why complain about Beyoncé's version?