Noah Berlatsky

Let's not ignore the fact that the original James Bonds wasn't just white. He was a white supremacist.

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.

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.

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

Writing can be hard and uncomfortable and precarious—but it's hard and uncomfortable and precarious in the way that any job can be.

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

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.

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

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

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