Noah Berlatsky

If my wife and son had thought bubbles above their heads, like in the comics, you would be able to read them saying, "dog dog dog dog dog dog dog."

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

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

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

David Ress' Aphexswift is genius precisely because it's so unlikely.

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

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

At first, this looks like sexism. And then you realize, hey, this is sexism. Hope isn't allowed to do the dangerous job because Pym has put her on a pedestal, and won't let her off it.

Is it insulting to ask about the greatest female comics creator?

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.