Noah Berlatsky

According to an Academy Awards voter, the right sort of people, with the right sort of education and connections, can't be racist.

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

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."

Feminist dystopia at its finest. Joanna Russ imagines a world in which the elimination of gender hierarchy leads to freedom, strength, and power.

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?

Iin a passionate Facebook thread last week, children's author Meg Rosoff rejected the idea that there are "too few books for marginalized young people," as librarian Edith Edi Campbell had suggested.

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

David Ress' Aphexswift is genius precisely because it's so unlikely.

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

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.