Noah Berlatsky

If you want America to relearn how to hate white Jews, the quickest way to do that is to associate them with black people.

"The look on Miley's face during Nicki Minaj's savage, expletive-laden rant says it all," Salon tweeted the day after the VMAs. Less than 140 characters, but still enough to link a black woman to a longstanding racial slur.

It's not the gender that's the problem: It's the oppression.

Action movies don't usually bother much with romance. The trailer for The Transporter: Refueled certainly doesn't. The hero is cool — sexy women, plural, throw themselves at him, or at least stand near him and things blow up; there are fights and revenge and high production values. Romance is, at best, a secondary concern.

Is the gender of the philosopher a marginal curiosity—or is it more central?

Banks' "Ice Princess" video shows that it's not only white people who can pick up someone else's culture.

David Ress' Aphexswift is genius precisely because it's so unlikely.

There's a good argument to be made that the earliest, and the best, rockabilly performers were women. Slicked-back, hiccuping, hopped up cool.

Sex and bodies don't clarify gender; they confuse the issue.

These covers remind us of the lengthy, rich—but often obscured—history of female songwriters.