Noah Berlatsky

The rom-com's worshipping of power and wealth comes with a gender twist.

"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.

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

At first, this looks like sexism. And then you realize, hey, this is sexism. Hope isn't allowed to do the dangerous job because Pym has put her on a pedestal, and won't let her off it.

The acclaimed solo album of former Danity Kane member Dawn Richard raises questions about the very nature of "cred." Is pop antitethical to artistry?

Fans of Batgirl are fans of Batgirl. They buy her comic to see her being heroic, not to see her being a slasher movie victim.

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

Some love stories don't end happily. So why do so many romance novels insist they do?

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

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