Noah Berlatsky

With the prospect of another Bush/Clinton presidential contest looming as ominously as Donald Trump's hairpiece, the word "dynasty" seems to be frothing off of many a pundit's keyboard. "Clinton, Bush struggle to shed dynasty labels," a Washington Post headline declared.

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

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

Hating sex workers—and treating them as things—can get you money.

Did the classic Adam West Batman show strike a blow (Kerwhap!) for feminism?

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

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

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

Some love stories don't end happily. So why do so many romance novels insist they do?

For once, central character Andrew's flaws are tied up in the fact that he is—wait for it—fundamentally decent.