Noah Berlatsky

Scientists are hotly debating whether we should send messages into space. Perhaps they should consult Octavia Butler for some wisdom...

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.

A new Facebook post calls into question cover depictions of hyper-sexualized men and women.

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.

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 you want America to relearn how to hate white Jews, the quickest way to do that is to associate them with black people.

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

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?

Illicit passions aren't less enjoyable because they're illicit. Quite the contrary.

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