Noah Berlatsky

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

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

Irritation is the way of all flesh. The question is, if you're going to be annoyed for all of eternity, who do you want to be doing the annoying?

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

The Lord of the Flies can feel like a vacation spot for conflict-management consultants in comparison to social media.

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

For once, central character Andrew's flaws are tied up in the fact that he is—wait for it—fundamentally decent.

Country music is an overwhelmingly heterosexual endeavor. The LGBTQ community certainly listen to, and perform, country, but in terms of lyrical content and themes, country has been focused on male-female romantic love.

Metal aggression isn't sexual, but existential. As a result, women in the genre are both rare and unexpectedly equal.

Rodriguez is confused when she says that people want her to steal white people's superheroes. But she also has a point.