Noah Berlatsky

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

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

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.

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

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

The founder of the brilliant fyeahblackrockmusic Tumblr talks racial politics, Kelis, and . . . the Doobie Brothers?

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

Hating sex workers—and treating them as things—can get you money.

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

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