Noah Berlatsky

Feminist dystopia at its finest. Joanna Russ imagines a world in which the elimination of gender hierarchy leads to freedom, strength, and power.

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

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

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

Bus ads comparing Muslims to Hitler have been replaced with images of a superhero. And not just any superhero.

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

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

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

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

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