Noah Berlatsky

Under the guise of philanthropy, 8 Minutes essentially blackmails some of the most marginalized and powerless people in society.

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

Is the gender of the philosopher a marginal curiosity—or is it more central?

"I believe that, in order to address these problems, we need to first understand how we got here."

"The look on Miley's face during Nicki Minaj's savage, expletive-laden rant says it all," Salon tweeted the day after the VMAs. Less than 140 characters, but still enough to link a black woman to a longstanding racial slur.

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

Their sexuality traps and destroys male innocence, as they grad hold, by the penis- the better to lead him to castration. Make no mistake that castration is greeted with fear, terror, and disgust—but also with glee. Women as super villains allow their characters to be super powerful; a force for evil is at least a force. In a media landscape where women are often rendered secondary, invisible, and passive, the femme fatale, in her icy violence, seizes female agency along with the phallus that she so efficiently cuts off.

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

Art without politics actually results in a sweeping Puritanism. For art to have power, it needs to engage with power, with politics.

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