Noah Berlatsky

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.

Who is memorialized in death has everything to do with race, class . . . and who you were in life.

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

Lower your standards, live in moderate amounts of filth, and go to bed early. The cat will thank you.

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

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

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

Talking about race can get you into a lot of trouble . . . especially if you don't have a lot of class power or status.

Some love stories don't end happily. So why do so many romance novels insist they do?

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.