Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz derailed a Fox News segment on Monday evening when he claimed The New Yorker’s editor relies on “neo-Nazi sources” and “makes up facts.” Dershowitz, who has become one of President Donald Trump’s fiercest media defenders, was initially brought on Fox News’ Hannity to discuss the latest developments in the president’s […]

Nowadays you can’t swing a dead possum without swatting a self-proclaimed know-it-all who feels it necessary to declare their atheism in the same breath as they extoll the virtues of their vegan lifestyle. Typically they are millennials, but Christine Smallwood finds it odd the millennials are reconciling their lack of belief with woo-woo like astrology. […]

Anthony Bourdain was dating Asia Argento at the time, and the actress had detailed in graphic description how she was allegedly raped by Harvey Weinstein at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival.

This article left me stunned, not by Gary Ruvkun’s maverick assertation about the origins of life as we know it but Isaac Chotiner not knowing a thing about SETI. Why aren’t you profiling the Kardashians or urging people to “Drink Pepsi”. It’s clear anything approaching science, beyond a baking soda volcano, is out of your […]

My Childhood in a Cult  The New Yorker On our isolated commune, we kids were taught that the world was about to end. But my world ended when I was told to leave, Guinevere Turner writes.

What’s New About Conspiracy Theories?  The New Yorker On the morning of December 4, 2016, Edgar Maddison Welch, a warehouse worker and a father of two from Salisbury, North Carolina, told his family that he had …

Another emergent pattern, besides drowning the wealthy, is the resurgence in interest with feeling the future. You know, time loops. Sam Knight’s been bitten by this zeitgeist, following the investigations of the Society for Psychic Research’s John Barker, a curious incident concerning Aberfan, and his collection of compelling, anecdotal reports strongly suggesting presentiment isn’t a […]

Have Aliens Found Us? An Interview with the Harvard Astronomer Avi Loeb About the Mysterious Interstellar Object ‘Oumuamua  The New Yorker Isaac Chotiner interviews Avi Loeb, the chair of Harvard’s astronomy department, about the interstellar object ‘Oumuamua and the possibility that it was sent by …

Jovan Hill, 25, from Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York, earn his living by live-streaming his day on a number of social media platforms and asking his social media followers for ‘donations’.

Cuba may be a tropical paradise, but for decades they’ve been a thorn in the side of Earth’s most powerful nation. Despite all of the technology the United States can bring to bear, Fidel thumbed his nose at 11 Presidents and his army of spooks consistently made fools of the CIA. And, to the best […]