Noah Berlatsky

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

Action movies don't usually bother much with romance. The trailer for The Transporter: Refueled certainly doesn't. The hero is cool — sexy women, plural, throw themselves at him, or at least stand near him and things blow up; there are fights and revenge and high production values. Romance is, at best, a secondary concern.

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

Irritation is the way of all flesh. The question is, if you're going to be annoyed for all of eternity, who do you want to be doing the annoying?

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

Banks' "Ice Princess" video shows that it's not only white people who can pick up someone else's culture.

If my wife and son had thought bubbles above their heads, like in the comics, you would be able to read them saying, "dog dog dog dog dog dog dog."

The rom-com's worshipping of power and wealth comes with a gender twist.

For once, central character Andrew's flaws are tied up in the fact that he is—wait for it—fundamentally decent.

A recent controversy at the Calgary Expo suggests MRAs care more about making opponents look bad than they do about discrimination.