Sascha Cohen

Sascha Cohen

Sascha Cohen is a writer and historian of gender and sexuality. Her work has appeared in The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Time, Playboy, The New York Daily News, Vulture, The Daily Beast, and Smithsonian. Her doctoral dissertation examines the women’s and gay liberation movements in the 1970s-1980s.

Diane Keaton in Looking for Mr. Goodbar, 1977

Politics & History

“No Unescorted Ladies Will Be Served”

For decades, bars excluded single women, claiming the crowds were too “rough” and “boisterous” and citing vague fears of “fallen girls.”

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Science & Technology

Can We Build a Better Facebook?

Is it time to turn our back on Facebook? And if so, what social network could possibly replace it?

Education & Society

Jews vs. the “Judeo-Christian Tradition”

Since the 1930s, the idea of a “Judeo-Christian tradition” has been used in American politics, but some Jews have always taken issue with the entire concept.

Verbatim: Fredric Jameson

Marxist cultural critic Fredric Jameson offered a philosophy of late capitalism that gave us a language for talking about globalization and the end of modernism.

Politics & History

The Genocide Before the Shoah

For a century, Jews in Turkey have maintained a strategic silence when it comes to recognizing the Armenian genocide. Could that be changing?

Lost Literacies Strips Down the Dawn of Comics

In his new book, literary historian Alex Beringer demonstrates how the birth of the genre of printed comic long preceded the Sunday Funny Pages.