Noah Berlatsky

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

"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.

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.

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

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

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?

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

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

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

Genre boundaries are conscious of race—and, in the case of rock, conscious of gender too.