Noah Berlatsky

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

It's not the gender that's the problem: It's the oppression.

The rom-com's worshipping of power and wealth comes with a gender twist.

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

Banks' "Ice Princess" video shows that it's not only white people who can pick up someone else's culture.

The founder of the brilliant fyeahblackrockmusic Tumblr talks racial politics, Kelis, and . . . the Doobie Brothers?

Their sexuality traps and destroys male innocence, as they grad hold, by the penis- the better to lead him to castration. Make no mistake that castration is greeted with fear, terror, and disgust—but also with glee. Women as super villains allow their characters to be super powerful; a force for evil is at least a force. In a media landscape where women are often rendered secondary, invisible, and passive, the femme fatale, in her icy violence, seizes female agency along with the phallus that she so efficiently cuts off.

Illicit passions aren't less enjoyable because they're illicit. Quite the contrary.

As a parent, you tend to assume that you have some say in forming your child's mental landscape. Then Santa comes along.

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