Noah Berlatsky

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

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.

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.

"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.

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

Bulimia.com has reworked superhero images to show more realistic body types—and their efforts are valuable in more than the expected ways.

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.

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.

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