Noah Berlatsky

Sex and bodies don't clarify gender; they confuse the issue.

Bulimia.com has reworked superhero images to show more realistic body types—and their efforts are valuable in more than the expected ways.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.