Noah Berlatsky

Bulimia.com has reworked superhero images to show more realistic body types—and their efforts are valuable in more than the expected ways.

Rodriguez is confused when she says that people want her to steal white people's superheroes. But she also has a point.

Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Edith Piaf: they're all still practically household names.

Is the gender of the philosopher a marginal curiosity—or is it more central?

"Childbearing [is] barbaric and pregnancy should be abolished," wrote radical feminist theorist Shulamith Firestone in The Dialectic of Sex.

It's hard to deny the appeal of the masculine ideal, especially when embodied in Jude Law. And yet, it's also a depressing vision.

In the U.S., anti-Semitism is universally condemned. This means that, effectively, anti-Semitism doesn't exist.

Scientists are hotly debating whether we should send messages into space. Perhaps they should consult Octavia Butler for some wisdom...

"I believe that, in order to address these problems, we need to first understand how we got here."

C.S. Lewis' classic book presents an unlikely challenge to the patriarchy in the form of its true hero, Lucy.