Noah Berlatsky

Conservative fetishization of the past is myopic, simplistic, and mean-spirited—but progressives can be too quick to cede tradition.

Can a popular author also be celebrated for literary quality? Not if that author is a woman like Austen.

Writing can be hard and uncomfortable and precarious—but it's hard and uncomfortable and precarious in the way that any job can be.

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.

At first, this looks like sexism. And then you realize, hey, this is sexism. Hope isn't allowed to do the dangerous job because Pym has put her on a pedestal, and won't let her off it.

A new Facebook post calls into question cover depictions of hyper-sexualized men and women.

Hating sex workers—and treating them as things—can get you money.

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

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

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