Noah Berlatsky

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

A recent controversy at the Calgary Expo suggests MRAs care more about making opponents look bad than they do about discrimination.

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

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

Last year there was much excitement at the announcement that Lupita Nyong'o was going to play a major role in Star Wars: The Force Awakens — the first Black woman to star in the franchise.

Can a popular author also be celebrated for literary quality? Not if that author is a woman like Austen.

For a second, it looked like the rabid hordes of gamergaters would be joined by metalheads. But #metalgate was never meant to be.

Writing can be hard and uncomfortable and precarious—but it's hard and uncomfortable and precarious in the way that any job can be.

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

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?