Noah Berlatsky

Bus ads comparing Muslims to Hitler have been replaced with images of a superhero. And not just any superhero.

As a parent, you tend to assume that you have some say in forming your child's mental landscape. Then Santa comes along.

So, if there are so many ways to sing this song, and if it's meant different things at different points, why complain about Beyoncé's version?

Can a popular author also be celebrated for literary quality? Not if that author is a woman like Austen.

Hating sex workers—and treating them as things—can get you money.

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

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

Their sexuality traps and destroys male innocence, as they grad hold, by the penis- the better to lead him to castration. Make no mistake that castration is greeted with fear, terror, and disgust—but also with glee. Women as super villains allow their characters to be super powerful; a force for evil is at least a force. In a media landscape where women are often rendered secondary, invisible, and passive, the femme fatale, in her icy violence, seizes female agency along with the phallus that she so efficiently cuts off.

Writing can be hard and uncomfortable and precarious—but it's hard and uncomfortable and precarious in the way that any job can be.

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