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Political Culture: Of Afghanistan, and a Girl From Nantucket

Jon Cummings November 19, 2009 9

It was such a simpler time, that summer of 2001. Remember it? That last season of America’s (cyclical) innocence shimmers in the memory, sorta like those gauzy images of lovebirds Robert Redford and Mia

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Sugar Water: “24” and the Enhanced Techniques of Viewer Torture

Robert Cass May 28, 2009 9

In February 2007 The New Yorker published “Whatever It Takes,” an article by Jane Mayer about the Fox series 24, and how the politically conservative views of the show’s creators, Joel Surnow and Robert

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