The power of a well and oft-told narrative is not to be diminished, but it also should not be feared if countervailing ...

Name an iconic scene from the first Spider-Man movie, the one directed by Sam Raimi that came out in 2002. You’re saying it’s ...

On Sept. 10, ProPublica published a story by reporter Gus Garcia-Roberts detailing how Pittsburgh Pirates center fielder ...

Britt McHenry, a former Fox host and ESPN reporter best known for a towing yard tirade, says she’s taken a job with the Trump ...

Welcome to the Defector College Football Watch Guide, where Israel Daramola and Ray Ratto will tell you which of the ...

The first line of Emily St. John Mandel’s new novel Exit Party sets the tone of the whole book. She writes, “In the first ...

The science fiction author William Gibson’s pithy observation that “the future is already here—it’s just not very evenly ...

The National Football League is back, in case you haven’t already been lectured, hectored, and badgered into aural submission ...

What does it evoke? What do you think of? More specifically, who do you think of? You immediately know you’re about to spend ...

Who knew Ben Shelton could do all that? Certainly not the Defector writer who was slandering him in the early stages of the ...

The quality of the average tennis broadcast has skyrocketed in recent years. Analysts assume far more curiosity and ...

Maybe you have heard of Roko’s Basilisk. This is a thought experiment, for lack of a better term, popular among a certain set ...