Noah Berlatsky

Who is memorialized in death has everything to do with race, class . . . and who you were in life.

The loss of gospel history has meant forgetting how important black women have been to American performance styles.

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

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?

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."

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

Genre boundaries are conscious of race—and, in the case of rock, conscious of gender too.

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

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

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