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Noah Berlatsky

Noah Berlatsky edits the online comics-and-culture website The Hooded Utilitarian and is the author of the book Wonder Woman: Bondage and Feminism in the Marston/Peter Comics, 1941-48.

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Religion Dispatches

MAGA and Christian Nationalism Satire "The Boys" Leaves Us With a Superhero Dilemma

Can we build a better world through superheroes who pummel the bad guys... in the name of multi-racial democracy?
Please note: The following includes spoilers for the series finale of The Boys . “Jesus… as we all know was tortured, stripped of his dignity, and killed. And that’s all well and good,” says…
Noah Berlatsky
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Religion Dispatches

Without Our Consent

ERs default to non-consensual pregnancy testing — and experts are sounding the alarm
In the film Belén , released earlier this year, a woman suffering from incapacitating stomach cramps goes to an emergency room only to learn that she’s pregnant. After she miscarries and doctors…
Noah Berlatsky
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Religion Dispatches

Media and Mainstream Jewish Orgs Ignore Antisemitism

Why overlook this judge’s antisemitic dissent in a gerrymandering case?
It’s not often that you see a federal judge issue a frothing antisemitic diatribe and call it an “opinion.” You’d think that when that happened, there’d be an outcry—after all Trump has taken…
Noah Berlatsky
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Posters of George Soros plastered all over Hungary in a 2017 anti-immigration campaign. The text reads: “Let’s not allow George Soros to have the last laugh!”