Noah Berlatsky

With the death of Leonard Nimoy, it's a good moment to pay tribute to (and question) his most famous character.

Who is memorialized in death has everything to do with race, class . . . and who you were in life.

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

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

This doesn't mean that the outcomes of domestic violence are always equal; men tend to be bigger and stronger than women, and therefore are more likely to cause serious harm, even in situations where violence is reciprocal. Still, the fact that women are frequently perpetrators of violence in domestic situations substantially undermines the typical story of domestic abuse—and helps to show just how harmful that story is.

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

"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.

Lower your standards, live in moderate amounts of filth, and go to bed early. The cat will thank you.

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

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