Noah Berlatsky

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

english lit academic. wish fulfiller. thwarted world-changer.

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

At first, this looks like sexism. And then you realize, hey, this is sexism. Hope isn't allowed to do the dangerous job because Pym has put her on a pedestal, and won't let her off it.

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?

Writing can be hard and uncomfortable and precarious—but it's hard and uncomfortable and precarious in the way that any job can be.

With the death of Leonard Nimoy, it's a good moment to pay tribute to (and question) his most famous character.

"Childbearing [is] barbaric and pregnancy should be abolished," wrote radical feminist theorist Shulamith Firestone in The Dialectic of Sex.

A Ghostbusters with a female cast is a thorough violation of the spirit of the original. And that's a good thing.

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