Noah Berlatsky

The cover for A-Force is a combination of tired trope and deodorant ad. Female empowerment can do so much better.

According to an Academy Awards voter, the right sort of people, with the right sort of education and connections, can't be racist.

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

At first, this looks like sexism. And then you realize, hey, this is sexism. Hope isn't allowed to do the dangerous job because Pym has put her on a pedestal, and won't let her off it.

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

As a white woman, Swift can afford to celebrate carelessness. Beyoncé, though, knows that even her casualness has to be perfect.

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

english lit academic. wish fulfiller. thwarted world-changer.

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

To read Massive isn't to discover a hidden truth, but to see a massive, obvious fact, bulging out for all the world to see.