Noah Berlatsky

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?

There's a good argument to be made that the earliest, and the best, rockabilly performers were women. Slicked-back, hiccuping, hopped up cool.

Country music is an overwhelmingly heterosexual endeavor. The LGBTQ community certainly listen to, and perform, country, but in terms of lyrical content and themes, country has been focused on male-female romantic love.

Fifth Harmony is nobody's idea of a roots band.

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

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

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

Let's not ignore the fact that the original James Bonds wasn't just white. He was a white supremacist.

This doesn't mean that the outcomes of domestic violence are always equal; men tend to be bigger and stronger than women, and therefore are more likely to cause serious harm, even in situations where violence is reciprocal. Still, the fact that women are frequently perpetrators of violence in domestic situations substantially undermines the typical story of domestic abuse—and helps to show just how harmful that story is.

It's hard to deny the appeal of the masculine ideal, especially when embodied in Jude Law. And yet, it's also a depressing vision.