Noah Berlatsky

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

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

Conservative fetishization of the past is myopic, simplistic, and mean-spirited—but progressives can be too quick to cede tradition.

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

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.

The loss of gospel history has meant forgetting how important black women have been to American performance styles.

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.

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

Who is memorialized in death has everything to do with race, class . . . and who you were in life.

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