A decade ago, I wrote a paper about the X-Men . It's been, amazingly, by at least a few thousand people, which is why I'm now turnin...

You've probably seen some form of this critical thinking exercise. There's this description of a person. You're asked to choose ...

Amazingly, I don't think I've ever blogged about video games and sexism. I suppose that I don't say much about video games becau...

1. Some quick reflections on The Amazing Spider-Man 2 following... — Neil Shyminsky (@neilshyminsky) May 6, 2014 But TL;DR? ASM2 wasn...

I've recently decided to embrace the uncommonly-used genre of the tweet-essay. Here's an effort from earlier today. It may work as s...

Eventually, I'll stop beating up on AMC's  The Walking Dead . Eventually. Probably when it's over. In the meantime, I want to ...

With the return of AMC's The Walking Dead , this week, here are my much-delayed but eagerly-awaited (or not!) reflections on why the sho...

Yesterday, Michael Sam, a college football player who intends to enter the NFL draft in May, told Sports Illustrated that he's gay . It...

From a Conservative Party of Canada radio ad: "There's so much I worry about as a mom. Justin Trudeau's plan to make marijuan...

Amy Chua, the Tiger Mom author, is back with a new book , co-written by her husband. And it looks like it will be unintentionally racist an...

We live in a world with NFL teams like the Washingtons* and MLB teams like the Clevelands*, that celebrate a tradition of white settler raci...

One of the reasons that I love sports is that I also love a good story. Unfortunately, sports commentary and writing is filled with awful st...

This is a comment from a reader of Joe Posnanski's blog , though it could come from any number of sports writers and "traditionali...

I want to write about two very recent developments in Canadian politics, two things that seem largely separate and uncon...