Noah Berlatsky

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

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

Conservative fetishization of the past is myopic, simplistic, and mean-spirited—but progressives can be too quick to cede tradition.

Irritation is the way of all flesh. The question is, if you're going to be annoyed for all of eternity, who do you want to be doing the annoying?

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

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

"Childbearing [is] barbaric and pregnancy should be abolished," wrote radical feminist theorist Shulamith Firestone in The Dialectic of Sex.

Illicit passions aren't less enjoyable because they're illicit. Quite the contrary.

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

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