Noah Berlatsky

The MIT professor recently wrote that feminist literature left him "terrified" of his sexual desire. But is Dworkin to blame?

english lit academic. wish fulfiller. thwarted world-changer.

Talking about race can get you into a lot of trouble . . . especially if you don't have a lot of class power or status.

It's hard to deny the appeal of the masculine ideal, especially when embodied in Jude Law. And yet, it's also a depressing vision.

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

The cover for A-Force is a combination of tired trope and deodorant ad. Female empowerment can do so much better.

While Atwood's feminist dystopia remains our favorite nightmarish future, Marge Piercy's Woman On The Edge Of Time is far superior.

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

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

"Childbearing [is] barbaric and pregnancy should be abolished," wrote radical feminist theorist Shulamith Firestone in The Dialectic of Sex.