Noah Berlatsky

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

"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.

Rather than seeing Beyoncé's sexual performance as linked to destruction, we can consider whether eroticism might be an alternative to violence.

Can a popular author also be celebrated for literary quality? Not if that author is a woman like Austen.

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

With the prospect of another Bush/Clinton presidential contest looming as ominously as Donald Trump's hairpiece, the word "dynasty" seems to be frothing off of many a pundit's keyboard. "Clinton, Bush struggle to shed dynasty labels," a Washington Post headline declared.

David Ress' Aphexswift is genius precisely because it's so unlikely.

C.S. Lewis' classic book presents an unlikely challenge to the patriarchy in the form of its true hero, Lucy.

Sex and bodies don't clarify gender; they confuse the issue.

A Ghostbusters with a female cast is a thorough violation of the spirit of the original. And that's a good thing.