Noah Berlatsky

With the death of Leonard Nimoy, it's a good moment to pay tribute to (and question) his most famous character.

Katniss is the voice of conscience and morality in the film, and in The Hunger Games series as a whole. In the just released last film in the series, she tries repeatedly to avoid unnecessary deaths. She insists that refugees from an attacked base be given an escape route, for example, and exposes herself in an effort to help them.

Critics say call-out culture is mean-spirited and bullying. Not so fast.

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

The first graphic novel to win a Caldeott gives children the chance to be adults, and adults the chance to be kids.

With the prospect of another Bush/Clinton presidential contest looming as ominously as Donald Trump's hairpiece, the word "dynasty" seems to be frothing off of many a pundit's keyboard. "Clinton, Bush struggle to shed dynasty labels," a Washington Post headline declared.

According to an Academy Awards voter, the right sort of people, with the right sort of education and connections, can't be racist.

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

Illicit passions aren't less enjoyable because they're illicit. Quite the contrary.

"I believe that, in order to address these problems, we need to first understand how we got here."