Noah Berlatsky

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

David Ress' Aphexswift is genius precisely because it's so unlikely.

If you want America to relearn how to hate white Jews, the quickest way to do that is to associate them with black people.

Country music is an overwhelmingly heterosexual endeavor. The LGBTQ community certainly listen to, and perform, country, but in terms of lyrical content and themes, country has been focused on male-female romantic love.

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

As a white woman, Swift can afford to celebrate carelessness. Beyoncé, though, knows that even her casualness has to be perfect.

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

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?

Female masturbation is sexy in part because it flirts with lesbianism. For male masturbation, it's a different story.

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