Noah Berlatsky

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

As a parent, you tend to assume that you have some say in forming your child's mental landscape. Then Santa comes along.

A Ghostbusters with a female cast is a thorough violation of the spirit of the original. And that's a good thing.

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

Maddie & Tae's new hit both indicates and subverts country's long history of sexism.

The history of pop music, and of black pop music in particular, has always been gay history.

C.S. Lewis' classic book presents an unlikely challenge to the patriarchy in the form of its true hero, Lucy.

"Childbearing [is] barbaric and pregnancy should be abolished," wrote radical feminist theorist Shulamith Firestone in The Dialectic of Sex.

Their sexuality traps and destroys male innocence, as they grad hold, by the penis- the better to lead him to castration. Make no mistake that castration is greeted with fear, terror, and disgust—but also with glee. Women as super villains allow their characters to be super powerful; a force for evil is at least a force. In a media landscape where women are often rendered secondary, invisible, and passive, the femme fatale, in her icy violence, seizes female agency along with the phallus that she so efficiently cuts off.

The Lord of the Flies can feel like a vacation spot for conflict-management consultants in comparison to social media.