Noah Berlatsky

So, if there are so many ways to sing this song, and if it's meant different things at different points, why complain about Beyoncé's version?

Rather than seeing Beyoncé's sexual performance as linked to destruction, we can consider whether eroticism might be an alternative to violence.

To understand this debate, it's important to consider historical context.

Is it insulting to ask about the greatest female comics creator?

Maddie & Tae's new hit both indicates and subverts country's long history of sexism.

It's worth questioning some of our assumptions about adolescent inferiority.

Conservative fetishization of the past is myopic, simplistic, and mean-spirited—but progressives can be too quick to cede tradition.

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

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

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