Noah Berlatsky

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

Who is memorialized in death has everything to do with race, class . . . and who you were in life.

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

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?

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

It's not the gender that's the problem: It's the oppression.

Daredevil focuses on the dynamics of heroism—the display of strength and violence as a way to distance oneself from weakness.

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

Critics say call-out culture is mean-spirited and bullying. Not so fast.

Iin a passionate Facebook thread last week, children's author Meg Rosoff rejected the idea that there are "too few books for marginalized young people," as librarian Edith Edi Campbell had suggested.