Noah Berlatsky

So, if there are so many ways to sing this song, and if it's meant different things at different points, why complain about Beyoncé's version?

In the U.S., anti-Semitism is universally condemned. This means that, effectively, anti-Semitism doesn't exist.

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.

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

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

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 surface text of the film is that you can't trust some guys. The (barely) subtext is that you can't trust any guys.

Is the gender of the philosopher a marginal curiosity—or is it more central?

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

Maddie & Tae's new hit both indicates and subverts country's long history of sexism.