Why Apologize?
People often do feel better after apologizing -- though not as good as they do after being asked to apologize and refusing. More »
Noah Berlatsky edits the online comics and culture website the Hooded Utilitarian. He writes for Slate, Reason, and Splice Today. He is the author of a forthcoming book about the original Wonder Woman comics.
People often do feel better after apologizing -- though not as good as they do after being asked to apologize and refusing. More »
Whether you're having lots of sex or having no sex at all, navigating intimacy is inevitably difficult More »
It's not a bad thing for kids to grow up thinking differently than their parents do. More »
Hollywood took Twilight author Stephenie Meyer's book about alien body snatchers and made a film adaptation with actors who appear to be actual pod people. More »
Expanding marriage to include gay people will change society, but not the way Megan McArdle predicts. More »
Major life events are major life events. What are you saving for, if not for them? More »
What Esquire UK's editor got right—and wrong—about images of women in mainstream media More »
Her new song "Bow Down" does, in fact, diss women. But so do lots of her songs. More »
Morgan Freeman, Gerard Butler, and Aaron Eckhart's new movie imagines North Korea attacking the White House—and exploits every stereotype about the American id. More »
The movie critiques the movement but doesn't offer much of a solution. More »
The 1978 film I Spit on Your Grave shows the terrible effects of sexual assault. More »
Administrators in Chicago may think they're protecting students by limiting access to a controversial graphic novel. But they're missing a chance to impart real knowledge. More »
Obsessing over a completely fair division of labor defeats the purpose of marriage. More »
Jennifer Love Hewitt's character on Lifetime's "The Client List" is just the latest example of "momsploitation." More »
The Republican senator's embrace of marriage equality shows just how successful advocates have been in linking the personal with the political. More »
"Twilight" and "Host" author Stephenie Meyer claims the word, for good reasons. More »
Stephenie Meyer's 'The Host,' soon in theaters, does for aliens what 'Twilight' did for vampires. More »
The new documentary "It's a Girl" highlights just how complicated the issue is. More »
Suuns' new album reminds that much of the joy of the today's art rock is the way it inhabits a tradition. More »
'Blue,' the WIGS show about a working mom who moonlights as an escort, plays on the idea that knowledge is power. More »
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