Noah Berlatsky

Why should prostitution be illegal? And, more specifically why should male prostitution be illegal?

Rodriguez is confused when she says that people want her to steal white people's superheroes. But she also has a point.

Critics say call-out culture is mean-spirited and bullying. Not so fast.

I am on my knees in 15-degree weather scrubbing poop from the sidewalk, and I have an epiphany of sorts—I do not want this dog.

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

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

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

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

"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.

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