Noah Berlatsky

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?

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.

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

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

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

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

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

The loss of gospel history has meant forgetting how important black women have been to American performance styles.

Female masturbation is sexy in part because it flirts with lesbianism. For male masturbation, it's a different story.