Noah Berlatsky

To understand this debate, it's important to consider historical context.

Country music is an overwhelmingly heterosexual endeavor. The LGBTQ community certainly listen to, and perform, country, but in terms of lyrical content and themes, country has been focused on male-female romantic love.

In the U.S., anti-Semitism is universally condemned. This means that, effectively, anti-Semitism doesn't exist.

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

With the death of Leonard Nimoy, it's a good moment to pay tribute to (and question) his most famous character.

Maddie & Tae's new hit both indicates and subverts country's long history of sexism.

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

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

"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.

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