Noah Berlatsky

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

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

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?

Bus ads comparing Muslims to Hitler have been replaced with images of a superhero. And not just any superhero.

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

Bulimia.com has reworked superhero images to show more realistic body types—and their efforts are valuable in more than the expected ways.

Talking about race can get you into a lot of trouble . . . especially if you don't have a lot of class power or status.

english lit academic. wish fulfiller. thwarted world-changer.

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

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