Noah Berlatsky

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

It's worth questioning some of our assumptions about adolescent inferiority.

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

"I believe that, in order to address these problems, we need to first understand how we got here."

Bus ads comparing Muslims to Hitler have been replaced with images of a superhero. And not just any superhero.

The cover for A-Force is a combination of tired trope and deodorant ad. Female empowerment can do so much better.

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.

Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Edith Piaf: they're all still practically household names.

For a second, it looked like the rabid hordes of gamergaters would be joined by metalheads. But #metalgate was never meant to be.

With the prospect of another Bush/Clinton presidential contest looming as ominously as Donald Trump's hairpiece, the word "dynasty" seems to be frothing off of many a pundit's keyboard. "Clinton, Bush struggle to shed dynasty labels," a Washington Post headline declared.