Noah Berlatsky

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

If you want America to relearn how to hate white Jews, the quickest way to do that is to associate them with black people.

Did the classic Adam West Batman show strike a blow (Kerwhap!) for feminism?

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.

Action movies don't usually bother much with romance. The trailer for The Transporter: Refueled certainly doesn't. The hero is cool — sexy women, plural, throw themselves at him, or at least stand near him and things blow up; there are fights and revenge and high production values. Romance is, at best, a secondary concern.

"Childbearing [is] barbaric and pregnancy should be abolished," wrote radical feminist theorist Shulamith Firestone in The Dialectic of Sex.

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

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

Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Edith Piaf: they're all still practically household names.