Noah Berlatsky

As a white woman, Swift can afford to celebrate carelessness. Beyoncé, though, knows that even her casualness has to be perfect.

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

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

These covers remind us of the lengthy, rich—but often obscured—history of female songwriters.

A recent controversy at the Calgary Expo suggests MRAs care more about making opponents look bad than they do about discrimination.

"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.

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.

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.

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

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