Noah Berlatsky

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

Daredevil focuses on the dynamics of heroism—the display of strength and violence as a way to distance oneself from weakness.

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

Maddie & Tae's new hit both indicates and subverts country's long history of sexism.

"The look on Miley's face during Nicki Minaj's savage, expletive-laden rant says it all," Salon tweeted the day after the VMAs. Less than 140 characters, but still enough to link a black woman to a longstanding racial slur.

As a parent, you tend to assume that you have some say in forming your child's mental landscape. Then Santa comes along.

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

Sex and bodies don't clarify gender; they confuse the issue.

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

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