Beatrice Harvey

How do we ensure that works match author's intent when every word is loaded and every choice matters?

What might be the benefits as well as the drawbacks of reconfiguring the traditional marriage?

The tight grip we hold on historic artifacts is motivated in no small part by the need to control the narrative.

Our addiction to cheap, disposable clothing is unsustainable, and the bill is coming due.

What kind of compassion and consideration can be shown to those we do not believe and lack the ability to trust?

When does a private disagreement become a matter of public interest? What defines the appropriate use of the online space?

Etiquette norms regarding "good taste" and "decency" are just another tool used to stifle expression, encourage conformity, and police group identity.

The justice system's growing reliance on artificial intelligence threatens to remove human sensibility from sentencing.

Can the show maintain its critical edge while offering controversial figures a platform?

Efforts to break with sexist norms can sometimes reinforce the harmful structure they seek to escape.

A piece of conceptual art challenges our traditional understanding of death with an aim of reinvention.

The genre is full of moral pitfalls and sticky situations for producers and consumers alike.

The kidnapping and murder of Sarah Everard represents structural violence and is not the unexplainable and unimaginable act it's been made out to be.

At bottom, the stories swirling around the pop icon all presume to pass judgment on another's capacity for autonomy.

Is there progress regarding sexual politics that can be made by leaning into the male gaze?

Sam Levinson's latest again raises questions about the limitations of white writers writing non-white characters.

What can cringe culture tell us about social norms, self-awareness, and moral shaming?

Given the vital democratic role of the fourth estate, we need some way of making fact-based journalism widely available.

What responsibility do social media sites have in moderating content and what responsibilities might fall on us, the users?

Is there any rescuing these conceptions of "womanhood"—and the specific discrimination and oppression they identify—from the charge of biological essentialism?