Noah Berlatsky

"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.

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

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?

It's worth questioning some of our assumptions about adolescent inferiority.

Fifth Harmony is nobody's idea of a roots band.

Katniss is the voice of conscience and morality in the film, and in The Hunger Games series as a whole. In the just released last film in the series, she tries repeatedly to avoid unnecessary deaths. She insists that refugees from an attacked base be given an escape route, for example, and exposes herself in an effort to help them.

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

To read Massive isn't to discover a hidden truth, but to see a massive, obvious fact, bulging out for all the world to see.