Tony Soprano. Nurse Jackie. The cops in The Wire. “The heroes of today are radically different from those of two or three decades ago. They have evolved to represent a radically changed world.” During WWII and the Cold War, there “was an almost archetypically monstrous enemy, we were unequivocally the good guys. But now we’re fighting wars … where it’s far less clear who the enemy is, indeed whether there is an enemy at all, or even that we are the good guys.”