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 first graphic novel to win a Caldeott gives children the chance to be adults, and adults the chance to be kids.

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.

Critics say call-out culture is mean-spirited and bullying. Not so fast.

For a second, it looked like the rabid hordes of gamergaters would be joined by metalheads. But #metalgate was never meant to be.

Lower your standards, live in moderate amounts of filth, and go to bed early. The cat will thank you.

Female masturbation is sexy in part because it flirts with lesbianism. For male masturbation, it's a different story.

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

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.

As a white woman, Swift can afford to celebrate carelessness. Beyoncé, though, knows that even her casualness has to be perfect.