Noah Berlatsky

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.

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.

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

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

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?

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

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

While Atwood's feminist dystopia remains our favorite nightmarish future, Marge Piercy's Woman On The Edge Of Time is far superior.

In the U.S., anti-Semitism is universally condemned. This means that, effectively, anti-Semitism doesn't exist.