Noah Berlatsky

Let's not ignore the fact that the original James Bonds wasn't just white. He was a white supremacist.

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.

Metal aggression isn't sexual, but existential. As a result, women in the genre are both rare and unexpectedly equal.

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

Hating sex workers—and treating them as things—can get you money.

The history of pop music, and of black pop music in particular, has always been gay history.

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

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

Genre boundaries are conscious of race—and, in the case of rock, conscious of gender too.

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