Noah Berlatsky

It's worth questioning some of our assumptions about adolescent inferiority.

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

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

To understand this debate, it's important to consider historical context.

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

Katniss is the voice of conscience and morality in the film, and in The Hunger Games series as a whole. In the just released last film in the series, she tries repeatedly to avoid unnecessary deaths. She insists that refugees from an attacked base be given an escape route, for example, and exposes herself in an effort to help them.

The surface text of the film is that you can't trust some guys. The (barely) subtext is that you can't trust any guys.

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?

For a second, it looked like the rabid hordes of gamergaters would be joined by metalheads. But #metalgate was never meant to be.

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