Noah Berlatsky

Daredevil focuses on the dynamics of heroism—the display of strength and violence as a way to distance oneself from weakness.

Talking about race can get you into a lot of trouble . . . especially if you don't have a lot of class power or status.

Lower your standards, live in moderate amounts of filth, and go to bed early. The cat will thank you.

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

The surface text of the film is that you can't trust some guys. The (barely) subtext is that you can't trust any guys.

Art without politics actually results in a sweeping Puritanism. For art to have power, it needs to engage with power, with politics.

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.

"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.

C.S. Lewis' classic book presents an unlikely challenge to the patriarchy in the form of its true hero, Lucy.